Dealing With Difficult People

Do you have a difficult person in your life? In your family, perhaps, or amongst your neighbors or colleagues? Maybe you’re a therapist and have a difficult patient or two.
My colleagues at Ramat Gan College in Tel Aviv invited me there next week to give a workshop on this topic. In this short video I share a story about a difficult person in my life and about what a colleague helped me understand about what is and what could be happening in such relationships.

About Daniel Mintie

Daniel Mintie is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School Of Medicine. He has a private practice in Taos New Mexico, USA and teaches cognitive-behavioral therapy at universities and training centers worldwide.

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  1. Robyn Blake-Mortimer says

    Hi Daniel,

    Thank you for your thought-provoking and very disarming podcast. I was intrigued at you embracing calling yourself “a difficult person” and what that label can mean to others and the community. I hope to learn to have that level of acceptance about my own foibles and my own strengths.

    From one difficult person to another,
    Robyn Blake-Mortimer
    Level 4 TEAM-CBT Therapist and Trainer

  2. L Scott Hird says

    This was amazing
    I’ve been married for 35 years
    That whole time I’ve known my wife to be controlling, argumentative and indifferent

    Now I see her as a completely different person
    An interesting person
    A teacher

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