Say Goodbye to your PDI (Personality Disordered Individuals): Recognize People Who Make You Miserable and Eliminate Them from Your Life for Good!

Stan Kapuchinski
Health Communications Inc. (2007)
ISBN 9780757306150
Reviewed by Vicki Landes for Reader Views (8/08)


Ever wish you could erase certain people from your daily life?  Does the thought of never seeing a certain relative again bring feelings of peace and serenity to mind?  Aside from relocating or getting adopted into another family, consider taking some advice from Dr. Stan Kapuchinski’s fascinating book, “Say Goodbye to your PDI (Personality Disordered Individual):  Recognize People Who Make You Miserable and Eliminate Them from Your Life for Good!”  What you read will stun you.

“Say Goodbye to your PDI” is an informational self-help book, meant to supply details on specific personality disorders so the reader can analyze their own reactions to these individuals.  Kapuchinski highlights five disorders:  Passive-Aggressive, Histrionic, Antisocial, Borderline, and Narcissistic with lists of self-descriptions and viewpoints from each one.  He hopes to not only put the reader in each of these personality’s shoes, but get them to recognize how they feel when interacting with one – whether swept away or at your wit’s end.  Kapuchinski stresses the importance of emotional intelligence when reacting to a PDI.  Not only should you know *why* you feel or think a certain way but *how* that reaction is taken by the PDI.

“Say Goodbye to your PDI” is sensibly organized, intelligently written, and appropriate to many – if not most or all – types of people.  It can assist professionals in dealing with a problematic patient or client, employees in dealing with one another, or families dealing with a difficult relative.  Although Kapuchinski utilizes many absolutes in his descriptions, such as “…this person will never change…that person is always looking to control you…” I think it fits well in the overall message the book is conveying.  Yes, absolute-type wording is normally frowned upon as it allows for no exceptions.  However, Kapuchinski’s intent is not to change the PDI.  It’s to change the reader’s way of responding and in doing so, needs words like ‘never’ and ‘always’ to drive his message home…and he does so with a passionate sense of total and unconditional certainty. 

Most people have ‘that one person’ in their lives that gives them headaches and heartburn.  Why continue to endure them when Dr. Stan Kapuchinski prescribes “stop your misery”?  “Say Goodbye to your PDI” gives you Kapuchinski’s 25+ years of experience in an easy-to-swallow format that’s safe for all ages.  Prognosis – a happier and mentally healthier you!

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