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petrichorandcoffee's review
3.5
There are many parts of this book that I found very informative and thought-provoking, and I would definitely say it is worth the read because of this. I especially appreciated the content about different forms and levels of communication and the effects of them. There were, however, some problematic/frustrating parts of the text where I felt Powell did not acknowledge that mental health can play a large role in people's emotions (he states that people have control over their feelings, which often is true and is important, and often is not completely true for people struggling with mental health). Additionally, Powell almost always uses males in his examples, which would not bother me except that the only time he uses females as examples are for extremely stereotypical cases (ex: when discussing people who are judgmental due to prudishness, he uses a female as the example of a sexually repressed prude).
theartoflanguage's review
2.0
I'm not religious, but this was still interesting. However, it was very vague. Maybe I know myself a bit better (though that's debatable) but I have no idea how I might get past my problems.
Now I find out he was accused of sexual crimes. Sounds like someone's repressing something there. Hmm. That has caused me to take a star off my rating, as it makes it hard to take anything he says as at all honest (funny that)
Now I find out he was accused of sexual crimes. Sounds like someone's repressing something there. Hmm. That has caused me to take a star off my rating, as it makes it hard to take anything he says as at all honest (funny that)
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