
Uptight and In Your Face
Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Dealing with uptight, high-stress people in your workplace, family, or home can be an enormous challenge, but this book provides invaluable insight and practical advice enabling readers to handle these "problem" personality types successfully. It is often stated that communication is the most important aspect of creating an effective relationship or achieving goals when working with another individual or within a team. But how does one communicate with someone who is too intense, anxious, or self-absorbed to hear anything you're trying to say? In Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover the author presents an invaluable tutorial to successfully interact with the most frustrating and taxing people in your life. This text examines the five most common types of uptight people to illustrate how the underlying patterns of intensity, anxiety, and self-absorption are displayed. Considerable attention is given to help readers understand how they may be contributing to their own distress. The final chapters present numerous coping and self-development strategies that will help reduce or eliminate many of the detrimental effects of interacting with high-stress people. Descriptions of complex psychological concepts are explained in everyday language.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Intense, Anxious, and Self-Absorbed
- 2 What You See and Feel
- 3 A Bleak Landscape: The Uptight Person's Internal Life
- 4 Anxious about Deprivation: The Impoverished-self Hoarder Type
- 5 Depriving Self and Others: The Austere Withholding Type
- 6 Wallowing in Greed and Excess: The Indulgent and Entitled Type
- 7 ''You Will Do What I Want'': The Controlling and Manipulative Type
- 8 ''Everyone and Everything Is Against Me'': The Revengeful Complainer Type
- 9 Why They Get Next to You: Understand Your Reactions
- 10 Make It Better for Yourself: Coping with the Uptight Person
- References
- Index