cover image Ms. Typed: Discover Your True Dating Personality and Rewrite Your Romantic Future

Ms. Typed: Discover Your True Dating Personality and Rewrite Your Romantic Future

Michelle R. Callahan. Crown Publishing Group (NY), $22 (249pp) ISBN 978-0-307-40800-6

For women who seem to make the same romance mistakes again and again, psychologist Callahan, a media presence and resident psychologist on reality TV show Queen Bees, offers a way of diagnosing and defusing dating self-sabotage. When it comes to men, most women know their type, but Callahan believes it's more useful to know your own type-or, more specifically, your mistype, as the ten personality profiles that follow all identify habits that keep you from expressing your true identity. These include Ms. Second Place, who tends to settle for less; Ms. Anaconda, the smothering type; and Ms. Bag Lady, still smarting over past relationships. A quiz helps readers find their match, and anecdotal evidence gleaned from patients demonstrate how these types work in the real world, where they fail, how they hold you back, and what may have caused the condition. Helpful tips for a ""Ms. Typed Makeover""are encouraging and wise, though Callahan's concept can get in the way of clarity; ""type"" and ""mistype"" seem to be used interchangeably, and often.