Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You - Brossura

Forward, Susan; Forware, Susan; Frazier, Donna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060928972 ISBN 13: 9780060928971

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1998

Riassunto

A therapist and lecturer helps readers fight back against the people in their lives who manipulate their emotions, with specific steps, checklists, and practice scenarios for confronting emotional blackmailers. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Susan Forward, PhD, is an internationally renowned therapist, lecturer, and author. Her books include the number-one New York Times bestsellers Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and Toxic Parents. In addition to her private practice, she has served as a therapist, instructor, and consultant in numerous Southern California psychiatric and medical facilities.

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"If you really loved me..."

"After all I've done for you..."

"How can you be so selfish..."

Do any of the above sound familiar? They're all examples of emotional blackmail, a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationships with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our deepest secrets. They are our mothers, our partners, our bosses and coworkers, our friends and our lovers. And no matter how much they care about us, they use this intimate knowledge to give themselves the payoff they want: our compliance.

Susan Forward knows what pushes our hot buttons. Just as John Gray illuminates the communications gap between the sexes in Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and Harriet Lerner describes an intricate dynamic in The Dance of Anger, so Susan Forward presents the anatomy of a relationship damaged by manipulation, and gives readers an arsenal of tools to fight back. In her clear, no-nonsense style, Forward provides powerful, practical strategies for blackmail targets, including checklists, practice scenarios and concrete communications techniques that will strengthen relationships and break the blackmail cycle for good.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060928972
• ISBN 13: 9780060928971
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252