This guide will help you if you are regularly exposed to difficult interaction situations in everyday life. Example: Interaction partners criticize, devalue, react angrily on apparently trivial occasions, give instructions without being authorized to do so, manipulate, etc. Such actions are usually carried out by people who have so-called personality styles or personality disorders. 

Do you find this stressful, uncomfortable, stressful or annoying and it is usually difficult to deal with it constructively? Then you are in good company. 

The aim of the book is to make it clear why people carry out such actions, what they want with them and how you can deal with them constructively. Suitable for partnerships, families, when working with colleagues and bosses or with people with whom you have little (but difficult) contact. 

Helpful strategies from the content: 

Stay calm, stay relaxed – don’t react aggressively – don’t come up with the same strategy – don’t react defensively – stay confident. 

About the author: 

Prof. Dr. Rainer Sachse makes complex psychological issues generally understandable and presents them in a humorous and sensitive manner. This is readable for laypeople as well as for colleagues.

Product Details

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; July 29, 2021
• Language: German
• ISBN: 9783662634745
• ISBN: 9783662634752