Making Sense of People

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by Samuel Barondes

What really bothers you about your boss—or your daughter’s boyfriend? Why are you so attracted to the person you’re dating? Can you rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.

Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got that way.

Now improved with easy, step-by-step “practical summaries,” these tools will help you quickly assess anyone’s tendencies, patterns, character, and sense of identity. You’ll learn how to combine these into a unified picture of who that person is. With these insights, you can choose more satisfying relationships, recognize telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savor the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.

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To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.

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To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.

— Samuel Barondes, Making Sense of People