Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155
EAN: 9780071381673
ISBN: 0071381678
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Sales Rank: 6408
Studio: McGraw-Hill

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


"Bernstein provides a field guide to the various types of Emotional Vampires and advises readers how to protect themselves from being victims of these predatory personalities."Andshy;Andshy;Boston Globe

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From bestselling author Albert J. Bernstein

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The author of Dinosaur Brains offers protection from people who seek to destroy the emotional and psychological well-being of others. Like the fabled demons, these vampires:

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• Think their needs are more important than yours .
• Believe "the rules" apply only to other people .
• Use their tempers in the same way terrorists use bombs .

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Emotional Vampires tells readers how to spot a "vampire" in their lives, which defense strategies to employ to prevent one from striking, and what to do if and when they find themselves under attack.






Rating: - Very helpful to me after a difficult time!
When I found myself needing to gently and tactfully extricate myself from the emotionally draining clutches of a close friend of a few years, I tried explaining to her that I no longer felt able to be everything she seemed to need (i.e., I could no longer continue to receive her weeping two-hour telephone calls out of the blue at 2 or 3 a.m., among other things). I was both surprised and relieved when this caused her to decide I was the spawn of Beelzebub and to cut me completely out of her life ... Read More

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Rating: - It explains a lot
Good read for the lay person in plain english. You need to read this so you can keep yourself from falling into the Vampire's trap.

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Rating: - wouldn't it be better to do something productive
It seems that this book is simply negative. If you are so concerned about these "insane crazy people" then get away from them. Reading a book while imagining these people seems extremely obsessive and histrionic in itself.

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Rating: - Check immediately for missing pages!
This review is about an apparent manufacturing or publisher defect: pages 37 to 84 are missing! They are not ripped out of the book, they are simply not there. I did not start reading it and get to page 37 until after the Amazon 30-day return period was over, so I've had to go thru a rigmarole with Customer Service about how to replace the book, ship back the other one, get a refund, etc. Very frustrating. Also, the customer service dept at Amazon classified this as a "damaged in shipment" problem, ... Read More

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Rating: - wish it wasn't focused on work environments
Overall, the information about these types of people is great. But the book focuses almost entirely on encountering these types in the work place, not in personal life. I deal with a histrionic cousin, who maintains her blond hair and Jaguar, while crying to me that she doesn't have enough money for food or medicine. Her non-stop need for me to take care of her has drained me. While I was able to get a lot of understanding from the chapter on histrionic vampires, I had to take the workplace solutions offered ... Read More

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