Difficult Personalities by McGrath, Helen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Introduction PART I - Incompatible Personality Traits

1 - What Are Incompatible Personality Traits?

1. EXTROVERSION OR INTROVERSION 2. PLANNING OR OPTIONIZING 3. THINKING OR FEELING

2 - Variety Plus or a Rich Inner Life?

Extroverted Style Introverted Style Potential Problems and Ways of Dealing with Them Conversational Style

3 - Let’s Get Organized or Go with the Flow?

Planning style Optionizing style Potential Problems and Ways of Dealing with Them

4 - Which Rules, the Head or the Heart?

Thinking Style Feeling Style Looking on the Bright Side What about Gender? Potential Problems and Ways to Deal with Them

PART II - Frustratingand Annoying Personality Patterns

5 - Built-in Flaw Detectors

What is Typical of Most People What is Typical of Negative People Why They Do It The Gender Factor What about the Kids? Strategies for Dealing with Another’s Negativity Strategies for Dealing with Your Own Negativity

6 - I’m Better Than You!

What Is Typical of Most People? What Is Typical of Those with a Superiority Pattern? Why They Do It Strategies for Dealing with People with a Superiority Approach Strategies for Changing Your Own Superiority Approach

7 - I Have All the Power, I Know All the Answers

What Is Typical of Most People? What Is Typical of Bossy People? Why They Do It Strategies for Dealing with a Bossy Person Strategies for Change if You Are Bossy

PART III - Confusing Personality Types

8 - The World Is Such a Dangerous Place!

What Is Typical for Most People? What Is Typical of People with Anxious Personalities? True/False Quiz What Is Anxiety? How Are Anxiety and Stress Related? Anxiety Hormones Make People More Emotional You Can’t Always Pick Them Anxiety and Self-Esteem The Physiology of an Anxiety Predisposition What Happens Next? Things Get Worse! How Anxiety Influences Behavior Some People Are More Predisposed to Responding in an Anxious Way Than Others What Causes a Person to Be Overly Anxious? Anxious Personalities and the Sleep-Wake Cycle The Long-term Impact of Chronic Anxiety or Stress The Severe Version of This Personality Pattern The Moderate Anxious Personality Pattern What about the Kids? Other Anxiety-Based Disorders

9 - Getting on Top of Anxiety

Not Recommendeded More Positive Strategies Understanding and Dealing with Others Who Are Anxious Strategies for Managing Your Own Anxiety-Based Behavior Facts and Statistics Don’t Act Precipitously Use Relaxation Strategies Watch for Other Things That Might Increase Your Flooding

10 - Everything Is Under Control

Excessive Worrying Overdependent Behavior Overcaution and Avoidance Perfectionism Protective Pessimism Hypersensitivity Hoarding and Procrastinating Overcontrolling Behavior Angry Outbursts

11 - I’m Always Right

What Is Typical of Most People? What Is Typical of People with an Inflexible Personality Pattern? Looking on the Bright Side Strategies for Dealing with Someone with a Rigid Personality Pattern Strategies for Coping If You Have Some Characteristics of an Obsessive ...

12 - Don’t Ever Leave Me

What Is Typical of Most People? What Is Typical of People with a Demanding Personality? What Is the Severe Form of This Pattern? What is Typical of Behavior Arising from “Terror of Abandonment”? How Do People with a Demanding Personality Think? What about the Kids? Why Do They Do It? Looking on the Bright Side Strategies for Dealing with People Who Demonstrate Characteristics of a ... Strategies for Changing Your Own Behavior If You Have Characteristics of a ...

PART IV - Damaging Personalities

13 - You’ll Never Get Me!

What Is Typical of Most People? What Is Typical for Most People with a Passive-Aggressive Personality? Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder According to the DSM-IV-TR Examples How People with a Passive-Aggressive Pattern Think Why Do They Do It? Looking on the Bright Side Strategies for Dealing with a Passive-Aggressive Behavior Pattern Strategies to Use If You Have a Passive-Aggressive Behavior Pattern

14 - A Silent Nightmare

What Is Typical of Most People? What Is Bullying? What Is Typical of Bullies? Forms of Bullying The Impact of Bullying on the Targeted Person Characteristics of a Bully Whom Do They Target? How Do People with a Bullying Pattern Think? How Do They Get Away with It? Is Gender a Factor? What about the Kids? Strategies You Can Use with a Bullying Behavior Pattern

15 - Everyday Predators Among Us

True/False Quiz What Is Typical of Most People? The Severe Form of This Behavior Pattern: Antisocial Personality Disorder What Is Typical of People with an Identifiable Sociopathic Pattern of Behavior? How People with a Sociopathic Pattern Think The Gender Factor The Two Types of Sociopathic Behavior Patterns: Unsuccessful and Successful Sociopaths “Unsuccessful” Sociopaths “Successful” Sociopaths Typical Characteristics and Behaviors of Chameleons Why Do They Do It? How Do Successful Sociopaths (Con Artists and Chameleons) Get Away with It?

PART V - Strategies

16 - Strategies for Coping with Sociopaths

Can Someone with a Sociopathic Pattern Be “Cured”? Strategies for Handling Moderate to Severe Sociopathic Behavior Patterns In Romantic Relationships How Can Someone Be So Good and So Bad at the Same Time?

17 - Making Decisions About Difficult Situations and Relationships

Change What You Can Change Your Thinking Change Your Own Behavior Change What You Can in the Situation Accept What You Can’t Change and Learn to Live with It Stay in the Situation and Suffer Take Off, Admit Defeat, and Leave the Situation Understanding: Using Empathic Thinking Optimistic Thinking

18 - Rational and Irrational Thinking

Keys to Rational Thinking Rational Thinking Is Helpful Self-Soothing Thoughts Typical Irrational Assumptions (Beliefs) That Need to Be Challenged Challenging Irrational Thinking All-or-Nothing Thinking Rational Self-Management of Emotions Rational Thinking to Manage Specific Kinds of Feelings

19 - Healthy Self-Assertion

Passive Behavior Aggressive Behavior Assertive Behavior Good Reasons for Using Healthy Assertion The Steps of Healthy Assertion

20 - Managing Your Own Anger and the Anger of Others

What Does an Angry Person Want? Responding to an Angry Person Managing Your Own Anger

21 - Managing Conflict

The Eight Strategies for Conflict Resolution Constructive Management of Conflict

22 - Skills for Maintaining a Strong Romantic Partnership

The Nine Principles Prompting Cards The P Strategy

PART VI - Following Up

Finding a Good Psychologist

How Do You Tell If the Psychologist Is Any Good? Contact Details for Professional Organizations

Books You Might Like to Read

Anger Management and Conflict Management Anti-Social Personality Disorder: Sociopathic Behavior Anxiety Assertiveness Borderline Personality Disorder Bullying The MBTI and Personality Types Optimistic Thinking Rational Thinking Relationship Skills General Reading DSM IV-TR

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