Product Description: Some men are especially difficult to manage in the psychotherapy room. They are controlling, exploitive, rigid, aggressive, and prejudiced. In a word, they are Authoritarian. This book is a guide for therapists and counselors who work with these men, offering an understanding of their psychological development and providing empirically supported recommendations to work with them effectively...read more

Product Description: A New Way of Looking at Power at WorkWho hasn’t left the office after a particularly frustrating day wondering what they could have done to turn a negative experience into a positive one? Perhaps it was a difficult conversation with a domineering boss, or an encounter with a know-it-all peer who made you feel insecure...read more

Product Description: If you have 30 minutes, you can take charge of your anger. Anger fills us with adrenaline, but can also cloud our thinking--a combination that tends to get us into trouble. In 30-Minute Therapy for Anger, you'll learn proven-effective skills developed by therapists for helping people process and control their anger instead of lashing out at others...read more

Product Description: The urge to say yes, to please everyone around you can be overwhelming. It is not just a matter of being a nice person . It can be rooted in your desire to maintain your self-image, the product of chronically low self esteem. It may even be the result of situations in which you feel you will gain from constantly saying yes...read more

Product Description: You can't always avoid becoming a manipulator's target, but you CAN avoid becoming a victim. This revealing book gives you the power to resist the people who want to control you.• Case studies and sample group sessions that demonstrate the various control approaches used by manipulators• A menu of common control techniques• A bibliograph...read more

Product Description: Dr. Sharon Presley offers a how-to toolkit that provides specific techniques to help people stand up to and deal effectively with experts in a wide range of contexts. This book looks at specific settings in which authorities or experts can bamboozle people, including institutions (e...read more

Describes the 'controlling personality,' explaining why these people try to run other's lives, the compulsion that drives this behavior, and how to break free from this type of person.

Debunks popular beliefs about the role of communication styles and gender roles in couples' therapy, arguing that power misuses are at the heart of most relationship conflicts, in a guide that traces the sources of inappropriate dominant behaviors and how to avoid key vulnerabilities. Original.

This concise, easy-to-read handbook offers genuine help and relief to people who frequently lose control of their tempers, as well as to their families and friends. The bestselling author of Letting Go of Shame divides his guide into two main sections--the first on understanding the problem, the second on taking action.

Product Description: This work by Runkel introduces Perceptual Control Theory, PCT, which is a new conception of how all living organisms function. Runkel links PCT thinking to the psychological literature and discusses it against the background of that literature...read more

Product Description: Like a Movie uses films as a stepping stone, window and metaphor to explore fundamental interpersonal issues. And what better metaphor than images over 60 feet high, elevated to the status of pop icon, that mirror and beckon us from every nook and cranny of our image-loving, surface worshipping culture...read more

Product Description: The newest book in Dr. Carter's series discusses the communication breakdown that sometimes creates nasty behavior in women, covers the many ways women are perceived by spouses, coworkers, family, and friends, and shows ways to repair the damage caused by behaviors often characterized as "female," including: Catty responses to questions or remarks Passive-aggressive tendencies Misunderstandings gone awry Nastiness as a defense mechanism Withdrawal from arguments or conflict Everyone knows a person who has been hurt, betrayed, or degraded by nasty individuals or has experienced it themselves...read more

A Columbia University professor of clinical psychiatry shares her years of experience on the subject of personal power, explaining how each individual can rediscover, understand, and fortify their own inner strength.

Product Description: Charismatic leadership in its extreme manifestations resembles a hypnotic situation in which the followers lose their autonomic judgment. Popper compares leadership to fire. The leader is the spark, the followers the fuel, and the circumstances the oxygen that feeds the flames...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)