Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them, and When to Leave Them (Paperback)

~ (Author), Lisa Collier Cool (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Psychiatrist Lieberman, a contributing editor to Cosmopolitan and a regular guest on major talk and entertainment shows, and coauthor Collier Cool have written a book clearly aimed at the kind of audience Lieberman is used to addressing. The prose is unhesitatingly overblown, and the numerous cliches will make this book palatable to daytime talk-show devotees. A good measure of simplistic Freudian analysis is thrown in to spice up the mix further. Despite the writing style and the Freudian mumbo-jumbo, however, the overall concept is interesting, linking the psychological profiles of 12 types of "bad boys" to the plots of fairy tales to clarify their typology. The types range from the chronic whiner to the out-and-out sociopath. The authors give hints as to who can be successfully reformed and who should be dropped. Overall, this quasi-Bettelheimian work is rather appealing. Suitable for medium to large public libraries.?Pamela A. Matthews, Univ. of Maryland Lib., Baltimore
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

Based on metaphors found in popular culture and fairy tales, Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them, and When to Leave Them is a practical, entertaining guide to the twelve male personality types collectivelyperceived as "bad boys." Includes detailed profiles ofparticular "bad boy" types and analyzes behavior patterns. Also advises women who are romantically involved with these types on how to save the relationship, or when to leave it.

* The Dutton hardcover edition of Bad Boys has over 30,000

copies in print! * Carole Lieberman, M.D. is an internationally renowned media

psychiatrist who appears regularly on America's top televisionand radio shows, and hosts a show of her own * Lisa Collier Cool is an award winning author of three booksand hundreds of magazine articles for such magazines asGlamour, New Woman, and Cosmopolitan

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Signet (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451195248
• ISBN-13: 978-0451195241
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,154,306 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening and Fun, February 2, 2002

By A Customer

This book was great fun to read. I got exactly what I wanted from it: a lighthearted look at why women choose inappropriate, or possibly destructive partners to share their lives with. Each chapter begins with a well-known fairy tale and goes on to show how life choices mirror that fairy tale in real life. Dr. Lieberman shows us how human insecurities and unfavorable experiences guide us to choose partners no rational person should want. For me as a man, it shed light on why some ostensibly sensible women date and marry men I would not trust to wash my car. I hope Dr. Lieberman writes a similar book for men, for we do the same thing, although the motivations are somewhat different.

Clearly this is not an academic treatise; it is pop psychology and makes no pretenses to be anything else. It is, however, a lot of fun to read. And it could help the woman who consistently chooses inappropriate partners discover why she does this and work toward curing herself of those demons causing her to take in the wrong men.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Leave a Badboy, December 31, 2003

By	Charlene Olin (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

After reading this book, I discovered that I was involved with a very dangerous man, that was more than likely going to try to hurt me very bad. He had all of the signs and the red flags that this book describes. After reading the 12 profile's which described him to a "tee" as the worst of the badboys, the type that could kill me, I decided to leave him for good. Two weeks later, upon leaving him, he fired a gun at me and tried to kill me, just like the book said would happen. Three weeks after trying to kill me, he killed himself. I lived to tell my story and I am here today. He is dead. This is a MUST READ BOOK for any woman invovled in a dangerous relationship with a badboy and certainly a must for any woman who is a victim of domestic violence.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars damage yourself, October 13, 2003

By	_porterhouse "_porterhouse" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bad Boys: How We Love Them, How to Live with Them, When to Leave Them (Hardcover)

Look at the Library Journal review presented here. Lieberman is guilty of everything mentioned in the first half of the review. Overblown prose. Numerous cliches. [Ideas] palatable to daytime talk-show devotees. Simplistic Freudian analysis. Mumbo-jumbo. This is the state of the business today, and it has much more to do with making money by crushing lives than psychoanalysis. If you're in this book's target audience, you are already far too dim to comprehend just why this book is so lousy - the good news is, reading it cannot damage you further. But for the rest of you, consider the Library Journal review (if not this one) a warning - stay away from this junk, for your sanity's sake. This woman (Lieberman) should be jailed, if only to keep her away from a word processor. And the publisher should consider itself lucky it cannot be brought up on charges of incompetence.