Comments on: In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People

By: Joyce A. Peterson

Joyce A. Peterson — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:48:25 +0000

This is one of the best books I have ever read. I have been busy with a highly manipulative top employees for two years and tried to find him. This book has been written about him, as he has tried all the tricks on me, and I was completely clueless. For the first time I have the book, it is not these proposals manipulator in his tracks – he was with his mouth open and not a word. Ha. Thank you Dr. Simon
Rating: 5.5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:33:04 +0000

Covert-aggressive personality model I never knew this type of personality was until I was on the way, what it may! This book describes all so different from the manipulative tactics used this character to take control of what they want (and if you win them in the way-watch out!). The book will help you, your own weaknesses, trying to take this personality, and how not to play into the hands, for that is where much of the manipulation occurs. The person who would know, I stop at nothing to get her way. Nevertheless, won the sympathy of others, and they had to do their dirty work for them. This is a practical guide, how to recognize and treat this type of person, and believe me, it’s not easy. The book helps to change the naive views you may have about the core of some people by nature. I found the knowledge I gained from the book of empowerment for the understanding of how the hidden personality ticks and ways to deal with them. This book clears up the notion that all people are insecure. Some just use this as a ploy to get her way. The person I dealt with all the manipulative tricks used, and was convincing to others. I wish I had known about this book while I was dealing with this personality type! Find out, because there are people that seem so sweet, but use all their relations, to have to gain their own power and control. And if they are caught, all excuses! The scary part is they stop at nothing to obtain control, but do it in such a devious way that even the people who sympathize with them, often not aware that they are easy to use!
Rating: 5.5

By: Sammy Madison

Sammy Madison — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:12:45 +0000

I think aggression and manipulation is an “open secret” in our society and lead a successful life of individuals a lot when the mental tools to intelligently evaluate and take action to have such behavior. “In Sheep’s Clothing” could help a reader who manipulated and used to take the necessary steps to work around a potentially ambiguous situation. When you begin to feel that there is something wrong in your relationship (with a relative, significant other, or boss) and that you do not, is crazy, this book could be a good start. This would also be a helpful book for a young people’s access to the workplace or the world to read the dating. I think many of us go out into the world is not aware that we encounter many people who are sizing us as potential victims. Those of us who have not learned to look for concealed aggression in humans, we would hope, trustworthy (lovers, teachers find, therapists, supervisors) could be put to the tender of this book, as these users rely on the victim and witnesses ” denial of what the attacker actually do. The section I found most interesting is the title of “knowledge, the tactics of manipulation and control.” I think this section is really the heart of the book because the reader the specific behaviors used against him be and see what they are able to identify: weapons and tactics of the attackers. is On the downside, I think this book could benefit from a substantial section on personality disorders. A person who is impaired in close relationship with a borderline or narcissistic personality offender would be likely, this book in the early phases of feeling, how to read something is wrong in their relationship, since manipulation is an important part of the pathology. For someone in this situation it would be really helpful to be told the characteristics of these diseases, so they better know “to their enemies.”
Rating: 5.4