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Don't turn the other cheek and fume quietly; know what to say when someone throws out the snide backhanded "compliment," subtle insult, cruel criticism, or outright verbal blow. Inside these pages is an arsenal of tools for fending off that attack and neutralizing the harm spiteful words inflict. Learn to identify modes of verbal assault, such as laying blame, and to recognize when someone is about to launch a linguistic strike and the motivation behind it. Sample scripts prevent you from getting tongue-tied, and a progress journal helps you use voice and body language for maximum effect. Find out how to handle the eight most common types of verbal violence, and redirect and defuse potential verbal confrontations so skillfully that they rarely happen. Special suggestions are included for college students, men, and women, and for handling emergency situations such as an angry crowd.
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Damon Salet
reviewed The gentle art of verbal self-defense on June 01, 2010
The gentle art of verbal self-defense
"If you REALLY loved me, you would read my review!"
The The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defence (GAOVSD) is more easy to read than the more recent (GAOVSD at work) opus. I should have begun by that one.
The octagon concept make very easy to understand the various verbal attack patterns. Some of them are very subtle, apparently caring ("Dear, everyone in this office know why you are so incompetent/emotive/...", pattern E), leaving the person confuse and angry. Despite the popular saying that words don't hurt, verbal attacks can pile up on someone and make his-her life miserable.
The opening sentence is an example of A, the first of eight patterns. Suzette helps to recognise it, then to respond to it, not by hurting back the other (who may be a close relation or a boss) but by defusing it. The "If you really love me you would X", it is the first part that must be addressed, in a detached way.
This is a work I would recommend to everyone, because not only do we discover agressive patterns in other's speech, but in our speech, too. (I am certain I did use the "If you really loved me..." routine in the past.) So we can root our our verbal weeds and make for a better atmosphere at work and in the family.
The only defect of the book is that the edition date from 1980, before computer and Internet invaded our lives. Try the 2000 edition, which includes email offences as well.
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