Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition

Protect yourself from people who take undue advantage and suck the energy out of your life Emotional Vampireswill help you cope effectively with the people in your life that confound you, confuse you, and seem to sap every ounce of your energy. Bestselling author Dr. Al Bernstein shows you how to recognize each vampire type--antisocial, histrionic, narcissists, obsessive-compulsives, paranoids--and deal with them effectively. He uses many examples from the latest news headlines, which will help you distinguish between the types and deepen your understanding of each one. In response to the daily calls and emails he got about the previous edition of this book, Dr. Al Bernstein has added his advice for dealing with those emotional vampires who come in the shape of spouses and lovers, relatives, and children. Dr. Bernstein shows you how to deal with each vampire type and what you need to do to keep from getting drained.

Dr. Albert J. Bernstein, bestselling author and Emotional Vampire-slayer, reveals the secrets that will protect you from these creatures of darkness. Detailing a whole range of disordered personality types, Bernstein shows you how to spot the Vampires in your life and equips you with a range of defense strategies that are guaranteed to keep the blood-suckers from draining you dry. Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D., is the bestselling author of Dinosaur Brains Neanderthals at Work, and Sacred Bull. He is a clinical psychologist, speaker, columnist, and business consultant.