How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People

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How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People ...

Also by Dr. Albert J. Bernstein Dinosaur Brains Neanderthals at Work Sacred Bull Emotional Vampires ...

How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D. MCGRAW-HILL NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO LISBON LONDO ...

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Acknowledgments First and foremost,I would like to thank the clients who allowed me to use their stories to illustrate my points ...

To Connie Bernstein ...

Contents Acknowledgments v PART ONE: EMOTIONAL EXPLOSIONS 1 Chapter 1: The Blast Zone 3 Chapter 2: What’s Wrong with These Peopl ...

viii❧Contents PART THREE: EXPLOSIONS INTO SADNESS Chapter 8: Explosions into Sadness Chapter 9: The Psychology of Depression ...

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Chapter 1 The Blast Zone All of a sudden your friend’s breathing changes into ragged gasps. You turn toward her and see her eyes ...

A customer storms in and slams his statement down on the counter. “I want to talk to the idiot who put this late charge on my bi ...

DISORDERS MAY BE DIFFERENT, BUT EXPLOSIONS ARE THE SAME. Peo- ple are accustomed to thinking of explosions into anxiety, depress ...

being said, what people are thinking as they say it, and what physiological reactions are going on in their bodies. At first the ...

describe what’s going on, so they use their behavior to evoke the same feel- ings in you. If you can let them know that you unde ...

EXPLOSIONS FOLLOW PREDICTABLE PATTERNS. Though irrational, emo- tional explosions still have a logic of their own. They are usua ...

ple; they will help. I believe this, but I’m not the one who matters. You must judge for yourself before you can use these appro ...

What’s happening is called the fight or flight response. At the physio- logical level, Jane’s panic attack is caused by gratuito ...