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Difficult Personalities: A Practical Guide To Managing The Hurtful Behavior Of Others (and Maybe Your Own) (2010)

by Hazel Edwards(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1615190139 (ISBN13: 9781615190133)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

The Experiment

review 1: Dealing with Difficult Personalities is an informational book. It is a phycology book about different personality types. It tells you what the definition of the personality is, if you are one, how to deal with one, how to stop it if your one, and situations a person of this personality type may get in. It even had relationship advise. In some parts it cleared up stereotypes of these personality types which really made me happy because their are a lot of stereotypes that are just dumb and mean that need to stop. I think it wasn't exactly a fun read but it was very informational and interesting. It really makes you reflect on yourself and how to help the people around you. I would suggest this book to people who have troubles with other people who has a difficult personality... more or you like phycology like me.
review 2: I already returned this book to the library so my review is going off my slightly bad memory.I really appreciated the introduction in this book. They made it very clear that people's behaviors are on a continuum and different "symptoms" of each difficult personality would be present in different people, and the frequencies and intensities of each trait would differ as well. Overall it was a good book to read, though the formatting started to bother me near the end. Each chapter would have sections and sometimes a section (titled with maybe a size 16 font, I think?, and bolded) would only have one paragraph in it. Okay. Also, there were some editing errors.Reading the entire book, some advice or information does get repetitive, but I think it's possible some people to pick up the book, find the chapter they're looking for and just read it. The authors probably had that in mind when they wrote the book.As another reviewer said, a lot of the advice seems like common sense. Yeah, it does, but some people react better to advice and take it under consideration if it seems more official than given from a concerned buddy. Or if they think their boss, significant other, spouse is being condescending... A lot of the personalities described do align neatly with Personality Disorders in the DSM-IV, as they mentioned. Mmm...can't remember what else I thought of the book... Hopefully it'll be helpful for me, in life, and also in future psychology classes. less

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