Crazy Makers: Getting Along with the Difficult People in Your Life

By Paul D. Meier and Robert L. Wise

Book Overview

If you've ever been caught between the wall and a human pile driver, beating you into emotional oblivion, you have learned how personal an emotional attack can be. But what if the adversary turns out to be someone you are working for, been friends with for years, or, even most difficult of all, your spouse? Dr. Paul Meier and Dr. Robert Wise will help you deal with the crazymaker in your life. Crazymakers can move by degrees from being difficult to being narcissistic. Difficult people are insensitive, tactless, careless, and inattentive, but narcissists are even more dangerous. They have absolutely no concern for others, which leads them to be treacherous or manipulative, constantly attacking another person. Both difficult people and narcissists are crazymakers: "In-charge-Marge" women and "I-hold-the-reins" men. The only way to win in a confrontation with a crazymaker is to learn to identify the real problems that lie behind the flying words and threatening fists, say authors Paul Meier and Robert Wise. Throughout this book they give you simple ways to do so. You need to pay attention to the crazymakers in your world so you can learn to deal with them from your strengths, rather than their weaknesses. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785278702
• ISBN13: 9780785278702
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Crazy Makers: Getting Along with the Difficult People in Your Life

This book is a life-changing read. I highly recommend it to anyone dealing with a difficult/narcissitic person. Once you understand, you can deal with the person.

A must have book for the abused

I was prompted to write this review because there was only one review here already. I couldn't believe that! This is such a great book for helping one understand abuse. Sure, there are facts it doesn't give, but it is still a book one should get if one seriously wants to start to get an up-close idea of how an abuser's mind works. It is also very useful in helping one understand how an abuser makes one feel (crazy for a start) and in giving important leads regarding effective ways to deal with abusers. I already knew a fair bit about abuse, abusers and the abused before I read this book. And yet I was extremely helped by it and grateful for it. I think it should be reissued so more can read it. It has Christian content and this will be helpful to Christians. But one can easily skip these parts if one is not a Christian and still gain all I said earlier.

Good information, but the battle will continue

I believe the authors understand the problem of narcissism very well. This book is brief, very readable and at the very least provides validation to those of us that have battled narcissism in others, that this is a very real, very huge problem. But as the authors also state, none of us can control another. Narcissists are blind and are unable to consider negative input about themselves, so making relational progress with a narcissist is virtually impossible - at least that has been my experience. I've read this book several times and have loaned it to family and friends. I highly recommend this book, but don't think it is a silver bullet - there is no such thing when it comes to narcissists.