How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life87 reviews
Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton

Gallup Press, 2004

The Magic Word, Positive!

+ How Full is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.
+ Does your bucket have a hole in it?
+ Foundation for Creating Supportive Environments
  
  











  



  
Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited61 reviews
Sam Vaknin

Narcissus Publications,Czech Republic, 2001

Get Out While You Can.

+ If Only Anna Nicole read this book in time... She would be here healthy
+ Narcissism CSI - Hands On Tool if You Want to Breath Again!
+ Liberating Info RE: the mind of the narcissist from a victim
+ After 25 years I reclaimed my life because of this book..
  
  











  



  
The Disease To Please12 reviews
Harriet Braiker

McGraw-Hill, 2002

self help therapy

+ So Helpful
+ Extremely well done, very helpful
+ How to Grow Wiser and More Carefree
  
  











  



  
Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry81 reviews
Albert J. Bernstein

McGraw-Hill, 2002

Useful, Informative, Easy to Read

+ Check immediately for missing pages!
+ wish it wasn't focused on work environments
+ Great book
  
  











  



  
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives38 reviews
Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, ...

Harper & Row, 1989

Parenting (and Re-Parenting) 101

+ The Best Book on Co-dependence There Is Barre None!
+ A Classic
+ Awesome.
+ If you know you're not crazy but at the same time you think you are ....
  
  











  



  
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You68 reviews
Susan Forward, Donna Frazier

Harper Paperbacks, 1998

For those in need, I highly recommend this book!

+ From the first page I was thinking this book hits the nail on the head.
+ lifechanging book, but...
+ If you think that you have ever been abused emotionally
+ Emotional Blackmail
  
  











  



  
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself161 reviews
Melody Beattie

Hazelden, 1992

Codependent No More

+ A life preserver.
+ Directly to you
+ Feeling like you have no control over your self-esteem?
+ Codependent No More
  
  











  



  
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond224 reviews
Patricia Evans

Adams Media, 2003

Love this book

+ Right on target
+ Amazing Book
+ A must read
+ Not all Abusers are Men, Not all victims are women
  
  











  



  
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work38 reviews
Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare

Collins Business, 2007

A must read for every working person

+ What about when the HR Director is the psychopath?
+ A Guidebook to a Strange World
+ One of the Most Essential Works on Psychopathy
  
  











  



  
Shadow Syndromes: The Mild Forms of Major Mental Disorders That Sabotage Us31 reviews
John J. Ratey

Bantam, 1998

Cultivate your shadow hypochondriasis

+ an important book
+ Insightful observations, well written

Shadows Syndromes is a worthy read, in that it does a good job of highlighting the major disconnect between diagnostic categories and reality. While the DSM model has its uses (research and billing being the only two I can think of right now), it also serves to reify the notion that mental ...
  
  











  



  
Why Is It Always About You? : The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism80 reviews
Sandy Hotchkiss

Free Press, 2003

Perfectly titled volume!

+ Why Is It Always About YOU? hits the mark
+ Knowledge is Power
+ A definite must-read!
  
  











  



  
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us110 reviews
Robert D. Hare

The Guilford Press, 1999

Highly readable intro to psychopaths by world's leading expert

+ Fascinating and Informative
+ A Truly Insightful Book
+ Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
+ ASSISTANCE IS FUTILE!
  
  











  



  
The Sociopath Next Door216 reviews
Martha Stout

Broadway, 2006

i see the light

+ Good info, interesting
+ Essential Reading
+ all people should read & heed
+ the sociopath next door
  
  











  



  
Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You69 reviews
Patricia Evans

Adams Media, 2003

Insightful

+ If you have ANYONE in your life whom you feel is controlling read this book.

Patricia Evans has done it again. She has written a book that I could not put down. "Controlling People" examines much of the subtle and not so subtle behavior you and I have experienced from others, have felt uncomfortable about and even felt worse because of. I always knew someone in my family ...
  
  











  



  
Trapped in the Mirror96 reviews
Elan Golomb

Harper Paperbacks, 1995

Rich, indepth study of narcisssism

+ Enlightening and Disturbing
+ Snapshots of Reflections

I have been searching for some time to find a readable book on this subject and how to understand how living with a narcisstic parent has affected my life. This is the book! Golomb takes a psychoanalytic approach that is very helpful in understanding the development of this personality disorder ...
  
  











  



  
Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations21 reviews
Christopher Lasch

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Superbly Written and Incisive Critique

+ Powerful Indictment of U.S. Culture
+ by Hammer and Hand do all things stand...

Christopher Lasch is intellect, you sense it as you read a flowing description of well-structured prose. He develops arguments, marshals facts, and presents his critique of so much that is debilitating modern society - American - and through ill-thought out emulation, British and other Western ...
  
  











  



  
Healing the Shame that Binds You: Recovery Classics Edition (Recovery Classics)46 reviews
John Bradshaw

HCI, 2005

Probably One of the Most Important Books I'll Ever Read

+ Goes along with 12-step programs

I highly recommend this book anyone who has experienced - depression, guilt, grief, abandonment, abuse or addiction. Healing the Shame - points to the build up of - Undeserved Shame as Children - as the main reason for the emotional pain we're haunted by through out our lives - pain we are destined ...
  
  











  



  
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself161 reviews
Melody Beattie

Hazelden, 1992

Codependent No More

+ A life preserver.
+ Directly to you
+ Feeling like you have no control over your self-esteem?
+ Codependent No More
  
  











  



  
Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited61 reviews
Sam Vaknin

Narcissus Publications,Czech Republic, 2001

Get Out While You Can.

+ If Only Anna Nicole read this book in time... She would be here healthy
+ Narcissism CSI - Hands On Tool if You Want to Breath Again!
+ Liberating Info RE: the mind of the narcissist from a victim
+ After 25 years I reclaimed my life because of this book..
  
  











  



  
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You68 reviews
Susan Forward, Donna Frazier

Harper Paperbacks, 1998

For those in need, I highly recommend this book!

+ From the first page I was thinking this book hits the nail on the head.
+ lifechanging book, but...
+ If you think that you have ever been abused emotionally
+ Emotional Blackmail