Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry, 2nd Revised, Expanded ed. (Paperback)

from nickdreamsong

Although I am not a huge fan of the "self-help" genre, I do think this book is extremely helpful in devising communication strategies for the people who annoy me most. In my worklife, I give this book out as a door prize when I train managers in the gentle art of dealing with their employees' emo...

from DetailMuse

{W}hen people are driving themselves crazy, they have neuroses or psychoses. When they drive other people crazy, they have personality disorders. In this book, psychologist Bernstein describes the five personality disorders that most often drain (i.e. the “vampire” of the title) people's emotion...

from Yolie

An enlightening book that recommend for any relationship.

from Amtep

Spot on. Useful tips for recognizing and dealing with a variety of obnoxious personality traits. The book distinguishes 11 types of "vampires", in five main categories: antisocial, histrionic, narcissistic, obsessive-compulsive, and paranoid. It doesn't pretend to deal with clinical disorders, ju...

from Yolie

An enlightening book that recommend for any relationship.