Dark Psychology and Manipulation: For a Better Life: The Ultimate Guide to Learning the Art of Persuasion, Emotional Influence, NLP Secrets, Hypnosis, Body Language, and Mind Control Techniques

by Brandon Goleman

★★  If you want to know yourself more deeply, and if you're going to deepen your emotional intelligence to live a happy life and fulfilled, then keep reading. ★★

 

The internet era and social media have introduced an entirely new reality into the social structure of modern society. Whether you experience those changes in your professional workplace or in your relationships with your friends and family members, no one disagrees that things have changed. Emotional intelligence is now recognized as one of the critical ingredients for success in this Brave New World.

Dark Psychology and Manipulation provides a comprehensive overview to develop your emotional intelligence. How this new awareness can help you detect, avoid, and escape many of the common pitfalls that hold people back from achieving their goals in virtually any area of their lives.

As you read Dark Psychology and Manipulation, you will discover a top-down approach for understanding what emotional manipulation is, how it can affect you, where you can turn for help, and what you can do personally to formulate a plan of action. Specifically, the five chapters of this book cover the following topics:

◆ Delving into Dark Psychology

This chapter provides a historical and theoretical overview of the science and practice of Dark Psychology.

◆ Dark Triad Personalities

This chapter provides specific clinical descriptions of the 3 classic predatory personality types.

◆ What Is Emotional Manipulation?

Emotional manipulation may look quite different in practice, and this chapter will help you identify the signs.

◆ Methods of Dark Persuasion

Aside from our personal relationships, convincing and persuading people has become an enormous industry. Here’s what to look out for.

◆ Defending Yourself Against Emotional Predators

Finally, once you’rearmed with the knowledge to succeed, you’ll need to formulate a strategy. This chapter will provide techniques and suggestions for living a happier and more successful life by putting your knowledge of emotional intelligence to work for you.

Job skills and traditional forms of education are as valuable as ever. But as social media,digital communication, and the changing workplace continue to evolve, we are all faced with a new set of challenges that require a new and different response.

Simply knowing what is holding us back isn’t enough anymore.

Dark Psychology and Manipulation not only gives you the skills and knowledge to know where to look for answers but also shows you how your newfound knowledge of emotional intelligence can help you achieve greater happiness and success.

You will thank yourself for choosing to read this book.

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Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

177 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 9, 2019

Reviews

[Shan Bell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative

This book provides an in-depth view on the inner thoughts of those that I've encountered in both my personal and professional career. I have a better understanding now on the reasons for the inappropriate behavior I've encountered.

[Gagandeep Bajwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Never judge a book by its title. At least this one, I'd say.

This book by Brandon Goleman isn't about how to manipulate others or the art of persuasion. Instead, it's about how to tell when someone is trying to manipulate you and how to protect yourself from those who use these techniques.

It's easy to read and has a lot of definitions. It talks about the inner thoughts of people one meets in their personal and professional lives.

How can you tell what someone's life is like based on their social media feed alone? In this digital age, emotional intelligence is more important than ever. I was hoping to learn more about how to understand some of these complexities and subtleties; however, the ideas discussed are just the tip of the iceberg. It would have been a richer read if there were more examples and case studies to help understand some of these concepts.

It is primarily the author's musings, but some extremely commonplace views are voiced; there was no discovery, only confirmation of how similarly we all feel.

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not nearly as informative or in depth as I thought it would be. Interesting, but not engrossing. Most of what is discussed in this book is just the tip of the iceberg and I was hoping the author would cite and discuss more case studies. Oh well.

[Mollie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fairly easy read and had some helpful information. The title seems a little misleading. I was orginally put off when this book was suggested to me as I was not interested in learning how to manipulate people, but upon further reading I discovered that this book is not a "how to" guide to learning the "art of persuasion" but more of a "this is what dark psychology and manipulation looks like and how to protect yourself from it" kind of book. I did end up taking notes, and highlighting some things to return to later. Overall it reads like a colligate psychological thesis paper. It reminded me of a few programs I attended at MPA over the years. This is a first publishing and could probably use a little editing and layout help from a design perspective but the information in this is still useful to know.

[Chris Noel · Rating 1 out of 5]

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. This book has the equivalent amount of information as a psych 101 textbook along with misleading statements. What is meant to be an interesting look into dark psych is really just a bogus self-help book that fear-mongers you into believing you are surrounded by emotional predators. The reality is you know if you are being emotionally abused. Do not leave it to this book to tell you you need to get help. Just get help.

It also seems as if there was no editing done on this book. There were grammatical errors about every ten pages. Another issue (albeit small) is the table of contents is at the back. ???

So happy this was 122 pages. I'm sure the author has his best intentions but the amount of contradictory concepts in this make it somewhat dangerous.

[Arjun Patel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dark Psychology and Manipulation is a compelling and eye-opening read for anyone interested in understanding the hidden forces behind human behavior and how manipulation actually works in real life. Brandon Goleman breaks down complex psychological tactics into simple, digestible concepts, making this book very accessible even for readers new to the topic.

This book is a strong introduction to dark psychology. It’s informative, actionable, and can help you become more mentally resilient in a world where manipulation is often subtle but pervasive. A recommended read for anyone looking to strengthen their psychological defenses.

[Val Vdash68 · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s an easy read and very informative if you have no understanding of the subject at all. It could have been edited better there was gapping in between words that was just random to me. But it was a decent read.

[Lane Keeton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing Unexpected

It was a decent book. The grammar was pretty terrible for a book that's been published and positively reviewed. A combination of pretty common thoughts that have been expressed for a long time.

[H Robert Mac · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book started out well enough, but then offered some questionable material without proper research. It went on to generalize in some alarming ways that could be misleading to those who are not familiar with psychology.

[elsaelsa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tons of definitions. Is more of an intro book.

[a Source of Light · Rating 1 out of 5]

nothing more than what you could find on Wikipedia; too short

[Anisha Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very easy and understandable. I learned what too look out for and behavior i should avoid in myself and other people

[Karlene Gould · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dark Psychology

Excellent book to read and see how it works out! Thanks again for your advice on its way to help and insightful comments.

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing! I love this book!!!

I had no idea what I've been dealing with my entire life!
Such a good read!!
I feel like I have some sort of direction!

[Leon Adeyemi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Briliant

This book is worth a read, wether your a fast reader, skim reader, slow reader this book is worth the time, I already had quite a good foundation on psychology (none educationally and un professionally) but this has broadened my outlook and horizons