This book has Three Parts to it. Three Time Frames - Past, Present, Future. Ask Three Questions: 1. How did we become the way we are? (Past) 2. What way are we? (Present) 3. How do we become the way we want to be? (Future) In this Book, I operationally define the aspects of a person we attend to when making perceptual judgments. (Note: Perceptual judgment are not the same as value judgments - Let's not confuse them.) Three Kinds Of Person Perception are involved in our personality development: 1. Our perception of others 2. Our perception of their perception of us 3. Our perception of...

Personality is that which distinguishes or characterizes us as a person. Traits are often used to describe a person's personality. I prefer to use a person's needs when referring to their personality. Example: The need to please. Needs may be large, or small, or not yet discovered. On Axis Two of a five axes diagnosis, I put Personality Tendencies which I equate with Dynamic Needs. Example: The Tendency or Need to Control. When a need becomes so large in a person's personality that it dominates their thinking, feeling, and doing - we then have a full blown Personality Disorder. Example: The...

This Book more than any of my Others harkens back to my doctoral dissertation in which I operationally defined the aspects of a person we attend to when making a perceptual judgment: They are... Appearance - What we see of person that doesn't move. Mannerisms, Gestures - What we see of a person that does move Voice Quality - How we say what we say Voice Content - What we say Person Perception is not a science but an art. To get good at it we've got to practice it. We can practice it on each other. Think about it. We have the power to effectively manage the way we are perceived by others. It's...

I hope that those of you who have read at least one of my Books - most especially - Closeness Without Control - have been put in touch with my softer side, which is accordingly highlighted in that book and this book as well. This book, which is for all intents and purposes - a Love Story - will be especially appreciated by those of you who have pets and love them and treat them as members of your family. Up close and personal - the cast includes, Pretty (a blue-yellow budgie), Doobie (a green peach-faced love bird), Cuddles (a white bunny with blue flecked fur, circles of black around his...