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Summary: platitudes galore
Review: I am disappointed in this book, which is an introduction to the platitudes of psychoanalysis. It contains no new thought -- a combination of banal comments and efforts to be witty. You will learn nothing. I am surprised that a physician would waste his time writing this type of book.
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Summary: platitudes galore
Review: I am disappointed in this book, which is an introduction to the platitudes of psychoanalysis. It contains no new thought -- a combination of banal comments and efforts to be witty. You will learn nothing. I am surprised that a physician would waste his time writing this type of book.
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Summary: Help for the Listener
Review: I am one of those people that EVERYONE likes to come and talk to me about their problems. Our busy season is during the summer and I tell you, there are times when I thought about charging a fee!This book has given me some insight on why people are the way there are. It will give me some better ideas on what people need to hear when they come to me for help. I am putting this one on the shelf...it is a good *quick look* reference/idea book.
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Summary: Help for the Listener
Review: I am one of those people that EVERYONE likes to come and talk to me about their problems. Our busy season is during the summer and I tell you, there are times when I thought about charging a fee! This book has given me some insight on why people are the way there are. It will give me some better ideas on what people need to hear when they come to me for help. I am putting this one on the shelf...it is a good *quick look* reference/idea book.
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Summary: I absolutely loved this!
Review: I found this book at the library and think I may have to go buy it as well. This is a basic primer of psychological principles but they can provide profound insight to your own psyche and the psyches of the people you know. It isn't a self-help book although it can lead to positive change. Sometimes things that are obvious to analysts and therapist aren't obvious to us. I had SEVERAL a-ha moments reading this book. It will lead me to investogate some matters in more depth, which I am certain is one of the intentions of the book. If you don't have a-ha moments reading this it is most likely that you already knew the info. Simply put, this book can actually help you change our life!
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Summary: I absolutely loved this!
Review: I found this book at the library and think I may have to go buy it as well. This is a basic primer of psychological principles but they can provide profound insight to your own psyche and the psyches of the people you know. It isn't a self-help book although it can lead to positive change. Sometimes things that are obvious to analysts and therapist aren't obvious to us. I had SEVERAL a-ha moments reading this book. It will lead me to investogate some matters in more depth, which I am certain is one of the intentions of the book. If you don't have a-ha moments reading this it is most likely that you already knew the info. Simply put, this book can actually help you change our life!
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Summary: Helpful Revelations about Ourselves
Review: Knowing Dr. Rosen personally, as a friend and classmate of our son, Dr. Wayne Macfadden, with his pleasant personality and good sense of humor, encouraged us to read his book, "Think Like a Shrink". His short 100 principles, each on only several pages,made it easy and very informative reading about ourselves. His principles about talking too freely to strangers appealed to my wife and I. We plan to suggest reviewing "Think Like a Shrink" to several of our book discussion groups that we belong to since it has so many helpful ideas.
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Summary: Best introduction into psychoanalisis ever
Review: My highest recommendation goes towards Think like a shrink (TLS). TLS is the best pop-psychoanalysis book I read since "Games people play" by Eric Bern (very strongly recommended as well). I became fascinated with the idea of Cliff Notes on psychoanalysis after reading Think like a shrink article in Sep/Oct 98 Popular Psychology by Emanuel Rosen.
The article was so good and so much in the face of current media thinking about personality, that I clipped it and reread it many times in the last 3 years. It also started with a tantalizing sentence that an author is writing a book on the same topic, so every time I read the article I checked the Amazon for the book. Finally the book came out this summer and exceeded all my expectations. TLS is divided into 100 chapters, not more than two pages each, and each one describing a key psychoanalytic principle and titled with hilarious anti-PC statement such as Woman who angle for male attention may never have hooked maternal affection.. and Don Juan had an absent father, or Too much love may mean hate; too much hate may mean love; or Beware unsolicited denials etc. Just reading the titles is worth the price of the book. I have to note here that the book is written weaker than the article, because the article was an absolute gem with 21 most important principles packed on 5 journal pages, with each principle being explained in 2-5 info-packed sentences. In the book the author has the luxury of spreading 100 principles into 230 pages, so the writing is not as tight. But the bottom line is that you will have a very good grasp of psychoanalysis (and yourself) after reading the book.
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Summary: Scary accurate
Review: Think Like a Shrink is easy to read; full of pearls regarding yourself and your relationships. If you don't really want to look too deeply into your life avoid this book. This book is scary good!
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Summary: A Helpful and Interesting Book
Review: This easy-to-read book uses a light touch to deal with some heavy truths. It offers simple and concise insights into our every day behavior, both good and bad and is helpful in pointing out ways to reinforce what is good and modify what is bad. The book is conveniently broken down into 100 basic principles, each briefly stated and written in a relaxed, good humored, contemporary style. The book is a pleasant, easy read, but after the first run-though the reader will most likely want to go back to review some of the principles from time to time. It is definitely a "keeper" for the home library.
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