The Complete Idiot's Guide to Verbal Self-Defense

by Lillian Glass

You're no idiot, of course. You know it's unhealthy to obsess about a waiter's insulting remarks, and you're tired of hearing your "best friend" remind you of your shortcomings. But when it comes to actually confronting the verbal bullies in your life, you feel like your yellow streak has turned into stripes. Don't swallow your pride just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Verbal Self-Defense, by best-selling author Dr. Lillian Glass, shows you how to take control of the situation. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

Genres: Self Help, Communication, Unfinished, Relationships, Reference

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Dr. Lillian Glass is an international communication and body language expert, media commentator and author of a dozen books, including Toxic People, He Says She Says, and a body language book, I Know What You're Thinking. She has a monthly body language column in Cosmopolitan Magazine. She also is actively involved as a jury consultant.

Reviews

[Georgina Allen · Rating 1 out of 5]

This has turned out to be a huge disappointment and doesn’t live up to the promise of the blurb or the opening chapters at all.

The writing style often becomes hectoring and assumes that you are completely incompetent in every conversational and relationship scenario, not just coming across a couple of difficult people you need help to manage. There are some good tips, but you have to wade through an awful lot of fluff to find them.

The advice given in the majority of sections is vague enough to unhelpful at best and downright dangerous at worst, particularly in the scenarios where you could put yourself physically at risk – many of the tips here are contrary to the advice I’ve seen elsewhere and may make the situation much worse.

[Reema · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious, engaging and incredibly thorough. I feel like I would need to read it a couple of times for the strategies to sink in, but useful nonetheless.

[Andrea Norton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book I've read in the Complete Idiot's Guide series, and I really enjoyed it. I didn't pick this up to learn how to verbally defend myself better - it was because there is a lot on why people act a certain way, and I wanted to read those sections.

But, in true Andrea form, I read it cover to cover. There is a lot of really great information in here, especially for people who don't know how to defend themselves. This book teaches you how to fight back in the right way, how to read people and how to handle people who bring you down. It describes different types of people and tells the reader how to identify them.

If you are someone who needs help defending yourself or you are curious about how people act and why they act that way, this is a great book for you.

[Doda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelente!

[Selika]

Some of the advice is not appropriate or unusable. Very little for bullied kids or dealing with provocateurs.

[Areeja Thescrambled eggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book few years ago and it changed my life.

[Zach Liang- · Rating 4 out of 5]

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