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Understanding Who You Are: What Your Relationships Tell You About Yourself

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I've only finished the first chapter, so perhaps this review is premature, but I've been deeply struck so far. My only question is, why hasn't anyone recommended this book to me before? Or, why haven't I come across this perspective anywhere else? It represents an approach to solving one's problems that is fundamentally orthogonal to everything else out there, in both the church, and the world. So far, I would recommend it.

As always, Larry Crabb's insight into relationships, the human psyche, and the link between the emotional and spiritual shines through in this short but sweet book. Mostly meant to whet your appetite for deeper study, this book provokes deeper contemplation of both one's relationships with humans and the Divine. A good read if you are traveling and don't want to lug around a larger book, or if you simply want a taste of what Larry Crabb is all about.

This booklet does an amazing job of looking at the hidden desires and explanations of who we are. I've never read a better summary of how we develop as humans based on the relationships around us. Totally worth reading. The chapters are short, but really meaty and you'll have to go slow through them.

Dr. Crabb does a great job in this book of setting a background for understanding who we are by what is going on inside us. He describes an informative structure for discussion and thought about why we do some of the things that we do. Excellent.

I suppose I shouldn't be complaining about 7 bucks, but I didn't think this book was all that the other reviews made it out to be. As others note, it was very short and in my opinion not very interesting or insightful. I hope his other books are better - I just got "Understanding People" so I'm hoping the reviews aren't a let-down for that one either.

The title of this book makes you expect too much about the actual book. Very little is included about this topic and the writing is not for the layperson. I was hoping for more of a simple understanding. Too many controversies in the text without clear solutions.