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Vampires: Emotional Predators Who Want to Suck the Life Out of You
Have you been bitten by a manipulative psychological leech? Or are you someone who enjoys bleeding others emotionally?
Very real vampires are stalking their prey from the shadows - not the supernatural kind, but people we deal with every day, who deliberately drain our mental and emotional energy. Many of these predators know exactly how much frustration, anger, and anxiety they inflict, while others carry on virtually unaware of the damage they cause, and victims are many times unaware that they are being bled.
What is an emotional predator? These "vampires" manipulate, use, and psychologically abuse friends, relatives, and even total strangers. By controlling situations and people for their own purposes, these emotional "blood suckers" gain strength to strike again. Vampires is the field guide for recognizing and combating these predators.
Written by a psychiatric care specialist and a well-known author of horror fiction, and peppered with fascinating personal stories from vampires and their victims, Vampires identifies and classifies emotional predators; exposes the methods they use and their favorite haunts (e.g., at work, in relationships, and in public); unmasks the collective vampirism of groups, and offers ways to combat the effects of an emotional attack.
Very real vampires are stalking their prey from the shadows - not the supernatural kind, but people we deal with every day, who deliberately drain our mental and emotional energy. Many of these predators know exactly how much frustration, anger, and anxiety they inflict, while others carry on virtually unaware of the damage they cause, and victims are many times unaware that they are being bled.
What is an emotional predator? These "vampires" manipulate, use, and psychologically abuse friends, relatives, and even total strangers. By controlling situations and people for their own purposes, these emotional "blood suckers" gain strength to strike again. Vampires is the field guide for recognizing and combating these predators.
Written by a psychiatric care specialist and a well-known author of horror fiction, and peppered with fascinating personal stories from vampires and their victims, Vampires identifies and classifies emotional predators; exposes the methods they use and their favorite haunts (e.g., at work, in relationships, and in public); unmasks the collective vampirism of groups, and offers ways to combat the effects of an emotional attack.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1998
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March 9, 2024
My favourite type of book is a charming novel with lots of wordplay.
My least favourite book is a nonfiction pop-productivity book that tries to widen its market so much and offend people so little that it ends up as 160 pages on nothing.
My second favourite type of book is someone passionately arguing a position that is *wild* with zero regard for their market. The type where 80% of the content is entertaining nonsense but 20% makes you think quite deeply. Often the creators have loathsome opinions but that's largely the charm.
This is a great example of the type. It's from 1998 and by two people who are both called Rhodes. One of them is a psychologist who is writing from the perspective of "emotional vampires are an interesting metaphor to look at certain behaviours" and the other is a novelist who is writing from perspective of "emotional vampires are REAL and have POWERS."
It's great.
The majority of it is wild, but lots of it has made me really rethink some relationships. Books like this don't tend to sort neatly into 2024's political divides; there are ideas/positions that look quite right-wing, and a bunch of things that one might consider very left wing, and it's interesting to see the ways that the writers connect them together.
My least favourite book is a nonfiction pop-productivity book that tries to widen its market so much and offend people so little that it ends up as 160 pages on nothing.
My second favourite type of book is someone passionately arguing a position that is *wild* with zero regard for their market. The type where 80% of the content is entertaining nonsense but 20% makes you think quite deeply. Often the creators have loathsome opinions but that's largely the charm.
This is a great example of the type. It's from 1998 and by two people who are both called Rhodes. One of them is a psychologist who is writing from the perspective of "emotional vampires are an interesting metaphor to look at certain behaviours" and the other is a novelist who is writing from perspective of "emotional vampires are REAL and have POWERS."
It's great.
The majority of it is wild, but lots of it has made me really rethink some relationships. Books like this don't tend to sort neatly into 2024's political divides; there are ideas/positions that look quite right-wing, and a bunch of things that one might consider very left wing, and it's interesting to see the ways that the writers connect them together.
July 20, 2009
It is hard to follow sometimes because the book changes from one author the other one. This is hard because they both have very different lines of thinking. Still they book has a lot of good information in it.
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