Pop psychologist offers the key to being a better you.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: November 11, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

PHILADELPHIA _ The epiphany came when psychologist Kevin Leman was watching one of those daytime talk-show makeovers in which a mousy woman was transformed in 45 minutes into an anchorwoman-type.

Why not write a book about a "personality makeover?" It'd be no sweat for a guy who'd already written 21 books on marriage, teen-agers, and the subject for which he may be best known: the effect of birth order on personality and behavior.

Six months later, he'd finished ``The Real You: Become the Person You Were Meant to Be'' (Fleming H. Revell Co., $19.99).

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