Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You - Hardcover

Forward, Susan; Frazier, Donna; Frazier, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060187573 ISBN 13: 9780060187576

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

The author of Toxic Parents offers a provocative look at the devastating effects of emotional blackmail and manipulation on a relationship and presents a wide range of strategies to help strengthen relationships and break the blackmail cycle. 100,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Review:

"Breathe a sigh of relief! Susan Forward helps you identify and correct an intensely destructive and confusing pattern of relating with those you love. I highly recommend this important book!"--Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

From the Back Cover:

DO IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE:
· constantly threaten to end the relationship if you don't do what they want?
· always want more, no matter how much you give?
· shower you with approval when you give in to them and take it away when you don't
· consistently label you as selfish, bad or greedy when you don't do what they want?
· use money as a weapon to get their way?
· say things like 'After all I've done for you...' or 'If you really loved me...?'

If you answer 'yes' to even one of these questions, you are being emotionally blackmailed. Emotional blackmailers know and manipulate our vulnerabilities: they are our mothers, our partners, our bosses and colleagues. In 'Emotional Blackmail', Dr Susan Forward provides you with the means to change, enabling you to build new healthy relationships both with the blackmailers in your life and with yourself. She offers sound strategies for blackmail targets, practical scenarios and concrete communication techniques that will break the blackmail cycle for good.

"Susan Forward shines a light on relationships in her uniquely compassionate and dramatic way."
DR BARBARA DE ANGELIS, author of 'Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know'

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060187573
• ISBN 13: 9780060187576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252