Tim Murphy (1)

This is a book I would NOT put into my personal library…I didn’t learn a whole lot more about passive-aggressive behavior than I knew going into the reading. There were relatively few “examples” in this book…and for this type of book and this guy being a therapist (and congressman…he does beat us over the head with this fact throughout the book and it was more than a little annoying), I would have expected far more “stories” or case studies…and they just aren’t here. This show more leaves the book a very dry and relatively uninteresting read, as he actually deals very little with actual passive-aggressive behavior and goes off at length on nearly ever other type of disorder that can be associated with PA behavior. I might recommend it to someone totally unfamiliar with PA-ness…but for me, this book left much to be desired. Additionally, the suggestions (beyond seek out a therapist/counselor, were excessively vague (another area where full examples to illustrate the author’s point would have been extremely helpful). I rate it a C and hope that I can pull some useful additional reading from the notes. show less