title: Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover
author:  Nina W. Brown 
description: Counselor, professor, and author (Dead End Lovers, 2008, and other psychologically oriented texts), Brown has written an excruciatingly painful book. Why is it painful? Because it brings, upfront and personal, memories of all the narcissistic individuals who have inhabited ones life, whether they be boss or parent, partner or co-worker or friend. The saddest of all is that, in the end, theres not much anyone can do to change an errant persons behavior. Given that fact of life, Brown spends much of her narrative identifying and describing, via a series of quizzes and explanations, the attributes of five different uptight individuals: hoarders, austere withholders, entitled workaholics, manipulative controllers, and revengeful complainers. Does the person withhold approval? Chances are that that person is categorized as austere, and the best coping tactic in dealing with that kind of individual is to become more self-sufficient. Her remedies are these: set psychological (and physical, if needed) boundaries, practice stress-reduction techniques, and insulate your emotions and feelings. A beginners course in combating narcissism. --Barbara Jacobs
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  Uptight and In Your
  Face
  Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent,
  Spouse, or Lover
  Nina W. Brown
  
  Copyright 2011 by Nina W. Brown
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
  stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any
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  except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior
  permission in writing from the publisher.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Brown, Nina W.
  Uptight and in your face : coping with an anxious boss, parent,
  spouse, or lover / Nina W. Brown.
  p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 978-0-313-38555-1 (hbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-313-38556-8
  (ebook) 1. Interpersonal conflict. 2. Interpersonal relations—Psychological
  aspects. 3. Personality assessment. 4. Stress (Psychology) 5. Adjustment
  (Psychology) I. Title. II. Title: Coping with an anxious