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When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism
by Martin M. Antony, Richard P. Swinson
from New Harbinger Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• awful, useful only if you had no clue that you were a perfectionist
  Hardly user friendly, though it attempts to be a book for a lay audience, it fails miserably succeeding only in writing a watered down academic article. If you are a fan of superficial platitudes masquerading as strategy, then this is book for you. Might as well save your 10 or 13 dollars, google perfectionism, and read the ehow version--you're getting the same thing minus the money and the time wasted sifting through bad writing and even worse style.

• For all perfectionists out there
  It was a blow for me when I learned that I am a perfectionist. I started reading about it, and this was my first book. It was hard from time to time to face the truth that this book was presenting me.

• Quite a let down, inadequate for "discouraged perfectionists"
  After reading Leman's "The Birth Order Book" and seeing that my wife and myself have been struggling with the predicted first-born power struggles and head butting for the last 10 years, both of us as "discouraged perfectionists" were looking for a book to offer pragmatic solutions for change.
  In looking at the overwhelmingly positive reviews for this book, I purchased it. The book has some major draw-backs:
  1. The text addresses perfectionism according to Hewitt & Flett, and Frost; however,... more info

• What I would have written
  This book contains exactly what I was looking for the past 10 years. I've learned much about myself. I would probably not read the last section b/c it's just a repeat of what's in the book, but being a perfectionist, I had to. If you can stand it, only read what applies to you in the last section and save your time for something else.

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