Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships

Your Perfect Right—the leading assertiveness guide with over 1.3 million copies sold—is now fully updated and revised. This indispensable guide to equal-relationship assertiveness is packed with step-by-step exercises, tips, and skills to help you express yourself effectively.

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 tenth 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!

• Clinical Behavior Therapy
• Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children
• Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
• Messages: The Communication Skills Book
• The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
• Skills and Techniques for Human Service Professionals: Counseling Environment, Helping Skills, Treatment Issues
• Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
• Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness
• When I Say No, I Feel Guilty
• The Messages Workbook: Powerful Strategies for Effective Communication at Work and Home (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)