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Manipulation: How To Recognize & Deal With Emotional Manipulation
MANIPULATION: How To Recognize & Deal With Emotional Manipulation
Have you ever dealt with someone whose problems were always a huge deal but when it came to something in your life, it wasn’t half as important? Or someone who always places himself in the role of the victim in order to make you feel guilty and do what they want?
Emotional manipulators are amazingly skilled liars. They insist that an episode did not occur, and they insist that they said or did something when they did not. The problem is they are so good at it that you wind up questioning your own sanity. To insist that whatever caused the issue is a figment of your imagination is a very powerful mean of getting out of difficulty.
Emotional manipulators understand your weak areas, and they are fast to use this knowledge against you. They cause you to question your own sanity and also can ruin your self-esteem. Once you begin to open your eyes and see all the people that are using emotions to manipulate you into giving money, time, or something else up, you’ll begin to realize that you are hardly in control of your own life.
This book is divided on manipulation at home and manipulation at work. I am going to show you the different types of manipulators and the techniques they use. I am going to explain why you attract manipulators and how to confront them, with an extra chapter for “the special approach for families”.
In this book, I’m going to teach you three key points so that you can begin living your life based on your own thoughts, knowledge, and feelings without being unknowingly manipulated by others. You just need the courage to do it.
1. How to recognize emotional manipulation.
2. How to avoid emotional manipulation.
3. How to confront emotional manipulation.
Don't leave the opportunity of living your own life taking your own decisions.
Have you ever dealt with someone whose problems were always a huge deal but when it came to something in your life, it wasn’t half as important? Or someone who always places himself in the role of the victim in order to make you feel guilty and do what they want?
Emotional manipulators are amazingly skilled liars. They insist that an episode did not occur, and they insist that they said or did something when they did not. The problem is they are so good at it that you wind up questioning your own sanity. To insist that whatever caused the issue is a figment of your imagination is a very powerful mean of getting out of difficulty.
Emotional manipulators understand your weak areas, and they are fast to use this knowledge against you. They cause you to question your own sanity and also can ruin your self-esteem. Once you begin to open your eyes and see all the people that are using emotions to manipulate you into giving money, time, or something else up, you’ll begin to realize that you are hardly in control of your own life.
This book is divided on manipulation at home and manipulation at work. I am going to show you the different types of manipulators and the techniques they use. I am going to explain why you attract manipulators and how to confront them, with an extra chapter for “the special approach for families”.
In this book, I’m going to teach you three key points so that you can begin living your life based on your own thoughts, knowledge, and feelings without being unknowingly manipulated by others. You just need the courage to do it.
1. How to recognize emotional manipulation.
2. How to avoid emotional manipulation.
3. How to confront emotional manipulation.
Don't leave the opportunity of living your own life taking your own decisions.
44 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 11, 2017
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James Edwards
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February 11, 2018
As someone who is conscious of the emotional manipulation she has been subjected to, I really appreciated this booklet validating my feelings in the matter. I’m happy to see that others go through the issues I’ve been through and that I’m not just paranoid. I think that is the most valuable part of Manipulation by James Edwards.
This book didn’t really tell me anything I didn’t know except for some technical terms and the fact that I’m not alone in this. While Edwards is right in how manipulators should be confronted, I also found that section to be rather hard to implement. It’s never as easy as approaching the person, considering that your own emotions get in the way, let alone the emotions of the manipulator. However, Edwards knows this and addresses that fact in this booklet. Manipulation is not an end-all guide to how to deal with manipulators. Instead, it gives suggestions on how to address the issue which you can personalize for yourself and the manipulator.
Unfortunately, I have to take a star off due to numerous proofreading issues. For most of the book, these mistakes are minor enough to ignore. Through the last fifth or quarter of the book, though, they begin to effect the quality of the writing. At some points I could just barely decipher the meaning because there were words missing, misused, or repetitively used. I still find the book helpful, but I would have appreciated more thorough proofreading and editing in the last ten or so pages.
All in all, I think anyone going through emotional manipulation will find great value in this book. In fact, even if you just know someone who is suffering from emotional manipulation or you suspect that you might be a manipulator, you’ll want to give Manipulation a look. It’s well-organized and very informative. Most importantly, by the end you’ll realize that you’re not alone in your situation and that you are definitely not going crazy. That, I think, is just as valuable as any advice on how to “fix” a destructive relationship.
This book didn’t really tell me anything I didn’t know except for some technical terms and the fact that I’m not alone in this. While Edwards is right in how manipulators should be confronted, I also found that section to be rather hard to implement. It’s never as easy as approaching the person, considering that your own emotions get in the way, let alone the emotions of the manipulator. However, Edwards knows this and addresses that fact in this booklet. Manipulation is not an end-all guide to how to deal with manipulators. Instead, it gives suggestions on how to address the issue which you can personalize for yourself and the manipulator.
Unfortunately, I have to take a star off due to numerous proofreading issues. For most of the book, these mistakes are minor enough to ignore. Through the last fifth or quarter of the book, though, they begin to effect the quality of the writing. At some points I could just barely decipher the meaning because there were words missing, misused, or repetitively used. I still find the book helpful, but I would have appreciated more thorough proofreading and editing in the last ten or so pages.
All in all, I think anyone going through emotional manipulation will find great value in this book. In fact, even if you just know someone who is suffering from emotional manipulation or you suspect that you might be a manipulator, you’ll want to give Manipulation a look. It’s well-organized and very informative. Most importantly, by the end you’ll realize that you’re not alone in your situation and that you are definitely not going crazy. That, I think, is just as valuable as any advice on how to “fix” a destructive relationship.
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