How to manage difficult personalities - Francois Lelord, Christophe Andre

How to manage difficult personalities - Francois Lelord, Christophe Andre - Sodis, TL, behind a title that looks like a joke looks a serious work, built like a novel. The two authors, psychiatrists, offer simple solutions to help everyone to better respond to individuals known to be difficult and to increase understanding of neurosis benign. In the gallery of portraits sketched by the authors, we note the anxious need to reassure the paranoid he should thwart the susceptibility, against which the actor is better keep his distance, the obsession that must promote the energy or the narcissist from which it is best not to highlight. From case studies, the reader discovers the salient features of each personality type, as well as interpretations to better understand the reasons for their behavior. This explanation is a prerequisite to better anticipate the reactions and control of these disturbing emotions that in daily life, can annoy and put us on the verge of nervous breakdown. - Paul Klein