Although Claude Steiner wrote a book on games – Games Alcoholics Play – this book was more a development of Eric Berne’s ideas about games than an original contribution to the literature; and, indeed, neither games nor his work on alcoholism appear in Claude’s own list of his “10 Top Ideas”. A significant theme of this book is the strand of Claude’s own reflections from his Confessions, arranged with regard to theory including scripts and strokes. The International Transactional Analysis Association, of which the author was a founding member with Berne, had refused to allow him the Presidency after Berne died; the Berkeley Free Clinic expelled him and the rest of the Radical Psychiatry Collective from their building; and a few years later the Radical Psychiatry Collective had broken up and both sides proceeded to excluded him, in turn, from their meetings.