This book helps readers recognize when they are in a "blackmail transaction" with someone close to them, and advises what actions to take to "cut through" those harmful strategies in order to achieve a truly healthy relationship.
Cooper, a former U.S. Naval intelligence briefing team member, offers this lucid, rational work that reveals secrets kept guarded by the American government since the 1940s, including the presence of UFOs, the facts behind the J.F.K. assassination, and more.
The vignettes contained in this book are based upon clinical cases and first-hand accounts of actual occurrences and circumstances. However, the names, professions, locations, and other biographical data used in the vignettes have been altered in order to preserve anonymity and privacy to the greatest degree possible without distorting the ...
In this guide to recovering from an unhealthy childhood, a clinical psychologist describes eight personality styles of controlling parents and provides self-tests to help readers determine whether or not they have been victimized by a parent's controlling behavior. Additionally, the author provides strategies to help readers develop confidence, ...
Persuasion, Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining looks at persuasion from a broad-based perspective, encompassing the full scope of persuasion found in everyday life. Linked to empirical research, this text takes students from persuasion theory to qualified conclusions about the operation of persuasion in real-world settings and examines ...
An inspiring, solution-oriented guide, "Emotional Unavailability" takes an upbeat look at why people form painful and unfulfilling associations and empowers them to find authentic emotional connections. Through real-life examples, quizzes, and an easy text, readers learn how to identify the ten types of emotionally unavailable people to avoid and ...
Learn how to 'break the spell' of control with Patricia Evans' new bestseller. Already hailed by Oprah Winfrey, Controlling People deals with issues big and small - revealing the thought processes of those who seek to control in order to provide a 'spell-breaking' mind-set for those who suffer this insidious manipulation. Invaluable insight and ...
Gaslighting is an insidious form of emotional abuse and manipulation that is difficult to recognize and even harder to break free from. In this groundbreaking guide, Dr. Stern shows readers how to recognize, and avoid, such relationships.
This book offers a powerful program to free yourself from manipulators - and regain control of your life. Millions of people, both men and women, can become involved in relationships with manipulators - people who control through emotional manipulation, insults, and mind games. These 'toxic' relationships erode self-esteem and make life miserable ...
Conventional wisdom says that women are the manipulative ones - but tell that to the thousands of desperate women suffering at the hands of a manipulative man. Men can be just as sneaky, passive-aggressive, needy, underhanded, whiny, guilt-inducing and emotionally demanding as women are accused of being - and perhaps more so! As any woman in love ...
Taking no prisoners, the author disembowels the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s. She skewers the "corporate bafflegab," scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills, sparing no one and nothing.
With clarity and refreshing honesty, Ken Blue offers hope and healing to the victims of spiritual abuse. He also shows Christian leaders how to avoid abusive patterns and instead offer Christ's gospel of grace to every casualty of bad church experiences.
In this startling book, Dr. Key exposes the devious and sophisticated strategies that advertisers use in newspapers, magazines, and television to manipulate and seduce our thoughts and senses. He explores why Americans are the most manipulated people in the world. This provocative book will forever change the way you view the world around you.
Emotional blackmail is a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationship with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our deepest secrets. They are our mothers, partners, our bosses and colleagues, our friends and our lovers ...
Julian comes to the Gardner household to tutor irresponsible young Brandon so he'll get into a good college. But strange things begin to happen as soon as he arrives and, despite the fact that he actually makes improvements in the lives of the entire family, 11-year-old Ruby suspects that all is not well. As it turns out, all is cosmically wrong, ...
Professional specialists, using market research and promotional campaigns, have come to dominate public communication. The modern public of the Enlightenment, based on free discussion, has, in Leon Mayhew's terms, been replaced by a 'New Public,' subject to mass persuasion through systematic advertising, lobbying, and other forms of media ...
An investigative reporter delves into the seamy world of conspiracies and conspirators and asks the question: "Is there something rotten in America?" For this first comprehensive, objective look at theories about American conspiracies, author Jonathan Vankin presents the facts and lets the reader decide for himself where fact becomes fiction and ...
This groundbreaking approach to parenting offers a proven program for getting manipulative children back on track. The core of the program is the concept of value-guided parenting, which requires parents to establish a set of values and then teaches children to behave in keeping with these values.
This is a cutting-edge look at the unique way in which entertainment media affects its viewers - both in intended and unattended ways - and the psychological processes that underlie these effects. It is about how the lines between entertainment and persuasion have become increasingly blurred and how these blurred lines might either facilitate or ...
Dr. Alper relates and analyzes three cases which come out of his practice as a psychotherapist. All three cases represent important aspects of our society and have the texture of lived experience. Matthew, in a story that both precedes and anticipates the David Koresh disaster in Waco, Texas, becomes a disciple of a counterculture cult in which he ...
If there is one phrase which has come to characterize the nature of Tony Blair's government in the public perception, it has to be "control freaks" - shorthand for an obsession with taking command of all aspects of government business and with how these are portrayed in the media. The proliferation of "Tony's Cronies" in key positions, the ...
Persuasion, Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining looks at persuasion from a broad-based perspective, encompassing the full scope of persuasion as it is found in everyday life. This text examines persuasion in a variety of contexts and settings, including advertising, small groups, and face-to-face encounters. The text places special emphasis ...
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