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Title: Radical Honesty : How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth by Brad Blanton ISBN: 0-440-50754-5 Publisher: DTP Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This Book has changed my life; Brad is an angel
Comment: I am a journalist and adventurer, and I am lucky to have come across the work of Brad Blanton. I've met him, interviewd him and worked with his process for a year, and I've become more bold, more free and happier for telling the truth. Radical Honesty is an easy read, lots of fun funny and totally for real. Check it out.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hack of all Hacks
Comment: The author of Radical Honesty is a complete Hack. His credentials rate as sewage water amongst those in therapy, psychology, and psychiatry vocations. He belongs to the school of thought that the more you tear someone down the closer you are to building them up. Does this make sense to you? He suggests that this 'radical honesty' improves relationships but he, himself, has been married several times. If this book doesn't send a relationship on the fritz, nothing else will. Skip this book unless you're a fan of quacks.
Rating: 2
Summary: Manipulative and simplistic
Comment: This is another of those kinds of books that seeks to blame all the worlds ills on a single problem/idea and trys to make the solution very simple. While it is true we all need to work on being more honest with others and ourselves, I think the recommendations in this book are downright dangerous. I mean really physically dangerous. There are times when telling your spouse about how you enjoyed having sex with her/his friend and really trying to get across how much you enjoyed it will get you killed. In fact, with some couples and cultures, the mere suspicion of infidelity can get a spouse killed. Yes, many people can't handle the truth. The truth can get you fired (which has been rumored to make it difficult to get food). It can get you slapped and your butt kicked up and down the block. It can destroy relationships.
There are times when the truth is mixed up and there is no clear cut truth. One may blame or accept complete resposibilty themself as part of a truth when in reality it is not them to be blamed. There are possibly other factors at work on the being other than the mind and how truthful one is.
The author states that it is natural for humans to behave in a way different then what he is suggesting. Isn't natural the real truth? Seems like a huge contradiction there.
The story of the couple where the woman is all upset with her boyfriend leaving her ending with her doing the therapy, seeing her boyfriend again and having sex with him after he left her and expressing her feelings - I don't see how this is really helpful. You have him having sex with an ex who was very upset that he left her and he is now with a new person - it seems like there is no thought being given to consequences in any of this. Just mindless "truth" bearing. And then the guy kills himself. Doesn't seem like any of her truth particularly benefitted him.
This is a tough world with limited resources. The mind forms out of necessity, out of a realistic need for it. Or else it wouldnt form. I think getting closer to the "being" and less in obsessional mind states is a good idea. And working on honesty is a good part of the way towards that.
But this book with its panicky references to the impending end of the world and its vulgar language and his own admitted dubious motivations for writing the book seems like one big manipulation. Like the woman who he is attracted to in the session, it seems things are presented totally to sell you on his point. The book is also extremely repetetive. He is basically repeating the same thing over and over on almost every page. I think he could have made this a 10 page book and been just a little repetitive.
His style is very gestalt - to hit you over the head with a hammer and to tell you that your head is all wrong. I guess some people like the whole power play dynamics. I remember asking a very well known therapist about gestalt therapy and she said that Fritz basically was surrounded by groupies all the time. She thought of it as a sophisticated form of mind control through suppression of individuality guised as getting to the truth of things.
Being honest with others and yourself is extremely important. But turing that into an end in and of itself seems a little grandiose and ultimately, boring.
I didn't like this book at all.
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Title: Practicing Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton PhD ISBN: 0963092197 Publisher: Sparrowhawk Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Silent Power by Stuart Wilde ISBN: 1561705365 Publisher: Hay House Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: VITAL LIES SIMPLE TRUTHS: The Psychology of Self Deception by Daniel Goleman ISBN: 0684831074 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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