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How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life 87 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
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Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited 61 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..
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The Disease To Please 12 reviews Harriet Braiker
McGraw-Hill, 2002
self help therapy
+ So Helpful + Extremely well done, very helpful + How to Grow Wiser and More Carefree
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Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry 81 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
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Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives 38 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 ....
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Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You 68 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
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself 161 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
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The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond 224 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
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Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work 38 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
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Shadow Syndromes: The Mild Forms of Major Mental Disorders That Sabotage Us 31 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 ...
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Why Is It Always About You? : The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism 80 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!
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us 110 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!
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The Sociopath Next Door 216 reviews Martha Stout
Broadway, 2006
i see the light
+ Good info, interesting + Essential Reading + all people should read & heed + the sociopath next door
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Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You 69 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 ...
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Trapped in the Mirror 96 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 ...
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Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations 21 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 ...
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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 ...
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself 161 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
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Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited 61 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..
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Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You 68 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
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