Coping With Difficult People Book Report

In reading the book, Coping with Difficult People by Dr. Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D. he describes that they are seven different type of people who one deals with in the world or knows some body who is one of these types. The seven types of difficult people are the Hostile Aggressive individuals, the Complainer, the Silent Unresponsive, the Super Agreeable, the Negativist, Know-It-All, and finally the Indecisive person who stalls any decision until its for them and refuses to let go of anything until its perfect, which never happens. Out of all of these drastically different but unique types of people the best type of person that describes myself currently is between a silent unresponsive and at time a realistic negativist, since I have had those same ideas and tried them and didn’t work so I am not afraid to say, “This wont work…because of this and I have tried it before..how about trying to do this task this way”. Finally, reflecting on Coping With Difficult People by, Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D. the silent unresponsive type is the closet type of personality to me at this time for a few reasons.

The most important difficult personality that I think I can learn the most from is the silent unresponsive personality Dr. Bramson talks about in chapter four. As I read this book I though of people who are each of the types of people, but when It came …show more content…
In order to keep the silent unresponsive person talking one must be attentive and watch ones own impulse to spurt out. The author also suggests flowing with tangential comments, the comments may lead to some thing relevant and important and it does then let the conversation go there until the next topic brought up and talked about. If the individual does not come up with a tangential comment, then state your own need to return to the original topic. These are the top ways to cope with this personality