Your Perfect Right, 10th Edition: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships

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Your Perfect Right the leading assertiveness guide with over 1.3 million copies sold is now fully updated and revised. This indispensable guide to equal-relationship assertiveness is packed with step-by-step exercises, tips, and skills to help you express yourself effectively.Are you comfortable starting a conversation with strangers at a party Do you sometimes feel ineffective in making your needs clear Do you have difficulty saying no to persuasive people Everyone needs a little help getting along with others. Assertiveness is a key social skill, as well as a tool for making your relationships more equal. Learning to respond more effectively to others can help you reduce stress and increase your sense of self-worth.In this fully updated and revised tenth edition, you ll learn practical advice on dealing with difficult people, handling criticism, and expressing your feelings. You ll also discover how to use humor in conflict resolution, ways to clarify others intentions, and how to distinguish between encouraging and discouraging communication habits. This edition also includes a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti, in addition to research and information on the subjects of anger and interpersonal communication.Assertiveness is an alternative to personal powerlessness or manipulation. The program in this book will help you develop effective ways to express yourself, maintain your self-respect, and show respect for others. This is not a me-first book it's all about equal-relationship assertiveness!

Reviews

"Your Perfect Right is the gold standard ... for self-help."
--Allen Fay, MD, psychiatrist and coauthor of I Can If I Want To
"An interesting, readable, and practical manual."
--Contemporary Psychology
"Filled with a wealth of examples on how to cope with everyday situations ... counters feelings of futility."
--Los Angeles Times
"Five-star highly recommended rating in the national survey ... Some mental health professionals call (it) 'the assertiveness bible, ' they think so highly of it ... this is an excellent self-help book."
--The Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Books
"Long regarded as the A-T bible."
--Human Behavior
"Not only is it the best book on assertiveness, it sets the standard for self-help books in general."
--Gary Emery, PhD, psychologist and author of Overcoming Depression
"The assertiveness bible: helps the non-assertive speak up and the aggressive, tone down."
--USA Today
"The bible of assertive training."
--Journal of Counseling & Development
"There are many practical guides to assertive living but this is without question, the best."
--Cyril M. Franks, PhD, psychologist and editor of Child and Family Behavior Therapy
"Without a peer in the field ... truly a classic."
--Aaron Beck, MD, psychiatrist and author of Love is Never Enough

Author Bio

Robert Alberti (Author)
Robert E. Alberti, PhD, is a psychologist, marriage & family therapist, Fellow (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association, clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, publisher, and author/co-author of several books. His work has received international recognition as the "gold standard" for psychological self-help.

Michael L. Emmons (Author)
Michael Emmons, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice, who has been a consultant to educational, government and business organizations, a trainer of marriage and family counseling interns at California Polytechnic State University, and author/co-author of seven books.
Emmons and assertiveness training became synonymous when he co-authored Your Perfect Right with Robert Alberti. Since 1970, he has devoted much of his life's work to furthering and understanding assertiveness. Although his focus on assertive living has taken center stage, he has been an innovator in terms of dealing with the whole person, mentally, physically and spiritually.
A lifelong meditator, Emmons has practiced daily, often in the garden by a koi pond. This practice helped him form his approach to psychology and led him to develop the system he calls meditative therapy. The Inner Source: A Guide to Meditative Therapy first detailed this holistic, eyes-closed method that facilitates an inner source to generate therapeutic and creative experiences. Meditative Therapy expands on this method as a therapeutic modality with wide ranging mental, physical, emotional and spiritual effects.