The Dysfunctional Relationship Manual: A Checklist and Workbook

by Stanley M. Giannet

The Dysfunctional Relationship Manual provides a penetrating opportunity for you to thoughtfully reflect on your relationship and identify issues that might be inhibiting your relationship growth and individual satisfaction with the relationship. This book will serve as the catalyst for meaningful change, choice, and ultimately, growth. It will stimulate and challenge you to inquire and contemplate on vitally important areas that are the basis of healthy relationships. This book is truly a tour de force for the self-help movement See why mental health professionals prescribe the Dysfunctional Relationship Manual to clients as a source for strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. Psychologist Dr. Stanley Giannet unmasks the slings and arrows of painful relationships and provides the identification and reflection tools necessary for life-altering self-discovery and insight.

Genres: Psychology, Relationships, Self Help, Nonfiction, Love

104 pages, Paperback

First published August 21, 2008

About the author

http://www.loveisstronger.com
http://www.dysfunctionalrelationships...

Stan Giannet holds a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology (1994) and numerous additional degrees and diplomas ranging from psychology to theology to executive leadership.

He finds great meaning in weaving his knowledge and experience into a written tapestry that is designed to inspire and positively influence others' intimate personal and interpersonal journeys.

He is the author of Love is Stronger than Death: Encountering Our Struggle with Grief and The Dysfunctional Relationship Manual: A Checklist and Workbook.

Reviews

[Simoneblanc · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought it would be another "how to" book about sprucing up your messed up, awfully sad relationship woes....but no! This is a very interesting, unique book (nothing like what I've read before about relationships). It's basically an assessment and reflection workbook that helps you and your lover explore whether you are in a screwed up relationship. It explores the most important things for healthy relationships according to the author: passion, intimacy, communication, trust, commitment, etc..with thought and emotion-provoking statements that you rate. But when you rate them, the author really makes you think and feel...get insight from the entire process.

Honestly, when I think about messed up relationships, the thoughts I conjure up are pretty simplistic women's Cosmo type magazine ideas about dysfunction. This book goes to the supermax and makes you think and identify issues that are easily suppressed, denied or just invisible to us; stuff that is really happening to people daily, and the sad fact is too often we tolerate it.

I highly recommend this book. It is not only appropriate for those in current relationships, also a super resource for those planning to love!! I think it can prepare and cue you in to stuff before you get tangled up in a nasty "dysfunctional" relationship. It really awakened me to all the potential craziness that is out there!

I also enjoyed the author's recommendations for coping with these relationships. Very helpful, clear, and paradoxically...disturbing.

Girls....before you commit yourself to someone, this is a good tool to have in your purse!

[Mollianna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a solid book emphasizing the importance of awareness, problem engagement and resolution. Giannet takes the most vital key areas of healthy relationships and identifies 240 themes ranging from sexuality to communication.... that are critically important to relationships.... and gives the reader the opportunity to rank where she or he is on each area. It provides a candid portrayal of relationships (if the reader is willing to really invest the time and emotional energy to think and reflect on their interpersonal experiences).

I also liked his reflection questions, where the reader is asked to contemplate on various themes ranging from goals to social support to attempted strategies to improve the relationship. His recommendations for change are very insightful and definately work, again, if one is truly invested in healthy change.

We have all asked what the ingredients of a bad relationship are...I think this manual provides a truly exhaustive answer, and it also identifies even unspoken areas that we often overlook consciously or unconscioulsy.

If I were in psychotherapy today, knowing what I know, I would be extremely grateful if my therapist offered this power-packed book as a gift for my current relationship and, if applicable, my future ones.

[Pinkie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A superb, creative, eye-opening workbook about the dark but all-to-common reality of many relationships. Reading and truthfully responding to this book will either help those in them recognize and respond in a healthy way or prevent those not in them avoid pain and disappointment. Love Giannet's logic!

[Othello · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Stanley stimulates readers to unearth the hidden relationship junk that is impairs our ability to love. This is surely a workbook...you will have to work at thinking and self-exploration to benefit from it. The outcome, I think, is well worth the discomfort of doing the work.

My relevant dysfunctional Othello quote for the day: "My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs;
She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful."

[Theodora Fasilis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think it hits all points that you don't really notice when you are in a dysfunctional relationship. It really helps you identify and warn you at the same time! An eye opener and something to think about and read! I would recommend this book even if you aren't in a dysfunctional relationship! Know the signs and do what's best to be in a healthy relationship!