Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm With Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists, 3rd Edition

by Sandra L. Brown MA, Jennifer Young LMHC

Women who have loved narcissists and psychopaths have long had speculation and assumptions about 'how' and 'why' they ended up in pathological relationships. Most of these assumptions are wrong.

This book is the book credited for launching the field of 'narcissistic and psychopathic' abuse and recovery. In this book, field pioneer Sandra L. Brown, MA brings her decades of study and research to the first science-oriented look at the pathological relational dynamics, the resulting trauma to survivors, how their 'hallmark' feature symptom of cognitive dissonance is created, and how some survivor's actual personality proclivity is the agent of targeting.

Wrongly assumed to be 'empaths,' Brown identifies why this is a dangerous assumption for therapists and survivors alike. Instead, her research with Purdue University revealed this survivor's 'profile' of current and future risk, hard-wired into the personality. Also wrongly assumed to be 'codependency,' Brown's work with survivors for decades, shows why codependency is often not the culprit for why survivors ended up in these pathological love relationships and warn work done on codependency, will not help them in their future risk related to more types of these relationships.

Brown also busts other myths generated from survivors-turned-'expert,' that lead survivors down the wrong road for recovery--in fact, elevating their trauma and their symptom of cognitive dissonance.

This pioneering book often called the 'Bible' by survivors and therapists is the real science behind narcissistic and psychopathic abuse, including a deep dive into the disorders of the survivor's partners, the relational dynamics, understanding this type of trauma that is different from other types of trauma, and the true survivor 'profile' and what recovery entails for them. The information in the book is evidence-based and trauma-informed and suitable for both therapists and survivors alike.

Unlike 'The Traumatic Memoir' of books written by survivors about their life with a narcissist, this book as the book that launched an entire field of counseling, is the must-read for those who want real science and real answers.

539 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2023

Reviews

[Mihaelamj]

n excellent exploration of the intricacies of a psychopath’s mind—insightful and thought-provoking. I gained valuable information from it.

[Angela Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bad title. Fantastic book.

I think the title of the book felt a little sensational and I ended up picking it up later than I would have preferred after reading through it. It's gold for anyone who has been swindled by a dark triad predator.

[Leigh Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whew, dodged that bullet.

[Medhat ullah · Rating 4 out of 5]

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