Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry by Albert Bernstein Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry
Book Review: Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this overview of five commonly-encountered personality quirks to offer invaluable insight into past difficult relationships. The 20 or so item checklist for each identified personality category and the "how to deal with" the particular personality were extremely helpful. It's both a fascinating read for those interested in the human psyche and a practical guideline for dealing with people with the identified tendancies. You are sure to recognize people you know in these pages.Book Review: Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People who Drain you Dry
Summary: 4 Stars
Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People who Drain you Dry
The focus of this book is individuals with personality disorders. The author, (Bernstein, 2001) refers to these individuals as emotional vampires and emphasizes that they are not like regular people. They go through life by their own rules and they are not fair. They use us to meet their needs. They draw us in and then drain us dry.
Bernstein (2001) limits the discussion of personality disorders to only five of the eleven disorders covered in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of American Psychiatric Association (APA). The coverage includes: (1) Antisocial ,(2) Histrionic, (3) Narcissism, (4) Obsessive Compulsive, & (5) Paranoia. The author includes scenarios to illustrate the traits of these personality disordered individuals. Humor is also used liberally to make the major points. I believe that the damage done by these personality disordered individuals is a serious matter. I recognize that one way to handle profoundly serious subject matter is to make it funny. However, for whatever reason I did not care much about Bernstein's funny approach. There is no doubt that after reading the book, you will be more informed about these personality disordered individuals. You might also learn how to deal with them. I recommend that you visit Bernstein's website. It contains useful information for dealing with negative emotions and difficult human beings.
Book Review: Entertaining, Informative Read...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a wonderful book in particular for lay people who know nothing about personality disorders. I am a psychologist and much of it was very basic and more of a review for me, but I can see how this book would really help initially educate those dealing with difficult people who have personality disorders. It seemed to be written in a way that was either targeted toward or easier to apply in the workplace, rather than in personal life, but still worthwhile.Book Review: Entertaining, informative, and accessible
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an interesting, humorous (maybe a bit too humorous), and engaging exploration into the people who drain you dry. This book is written for lay people. It's hard to put down.
The author classifies "emotional vampires" into a number of different categories, provides guidelines for identifying them, and most importantly, the tools for dealing with them, if you choose to do so. The book may be a revelation for you, as it was for me, by helping you see that there is nothing you can do to "help" the individual in question, you can only learn to manage them, AND your own response to them, or cut them loose.
Book Review: Exactly as promised
Summary: 5 Stars
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