Your Perfect Right, Tenth Edition

Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships

By: Robert Alberti PhD, Michael Emmons PhD

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Are you comfortable starting a conversation with strangers at a party? Do you sometimes feel ineffective in making your needs clear? Do you have difficulty saying no to persuasive people?

Everyone needs a little help getting along with others. Assertiveness is a key social skill, as well as a tool for making your relationships more equal. Learning to respond more effectively to others can help you reduce stress and increase your sense of self-worth.

In this fully updated and revised 10th edition, you'll learn practical advice on dealing with difficult people, handling criticism, and expressing your feelings. You'll also discover how to use humor in conflict resolution, ways to clarify others' intentions, and how to distinguish between encouraging and discouraging communication habits. This edition also includes a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti, in addition to research and information on the subjects of anger and interpersonal communication.

Assertiveness is an alternative to personal powerlessness or manipulation. The program in this book will help you develop effective ways to express yourself, maintain your self-respect, and show respect for others. This is not a "me-first" book-it's all about equal-relationship assertiveness!

©2017 Robert E. Alberti and Michael L. Emmons (P)2020 Tantor

Very helpful and easy to understand.

I enjoyed all the straight forward advice and practices given for interacting with most anyone in my life. It made me feel more at easy with sharing my opinions and feeling.

Great Information to Practice

Was informative, great work. Throughout the book there was offerings of other suggested books, sure wished at the end of the book they would have been reoffered so I could have noted a few of them.

A must read and a reread it is awesome

I must read and a reread it is awesome thank you thank you thank you thank you for your help for your words. Thank you.

Time to self reflect and change

A therapist friend recommended this book to me. I had the basics of sharing my positive or negative feelings with people. But this book sheds light on when to do it and when not to do it. To become assertive on this process and pursue equality on all types of relationships.

Ugh. Came highly recommended, but too dated.

There may well be some great messages in this book. but the tone and examples were so dated as to be offensive to me. I was assigned this book, but flatly refused to go on reading after just one chapter or so