Cake cannot help the EU's constitutional problems

The great psychotherapist, Eric Berne, is perhaps best remembered for what he had intended to be a minor monograph on human relationships.

Such, however, was Berne's skill as a writer that his 1964 'Games People Play' rapidly became a best seller and established a permanent place for him in the pantheon of those who have sought to understand the mysterious workings of the febrile human mind.

Berne used to suppose that people would often act in two very different, if not opposing w...