The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others - Hardcover

Lamia, Mary C.; Krieger, Marilyn J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626543704 ISBN 13: 9781626543706

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, 2015

Synopsis

Rescuing others, losing yourself.

Are you a white knight? Are you attracted to needy, damaged, or helpless people? Do you feel like your love can heal your partner? Are you overly involved in your partner's problems? Are you hungry for constant reassurance in relationships? Do you make excuses for your partner? Do you try to "save" people from themselves?

In legends and fairytales, the white knight rescues the damsel in distress, falls in love, and saves the day. Real-life white knights are men and women who enter into romantic relationships with damaged and vulnerable partners, hoping that love will transform their partner's behavior or life-a relationship pattern that seldom leads to a storybook ending.

If this dynamic sounds familiar to you, you may be a white knight; hoping to receive admiration, validation, or love from your partners, but managing only to cheat yourself out of emotionally healthy relationships. It's time to come to your own rescue, and this book can help.

With well-written analysis, engaging insight, and salient case studies, The White Knight Syndrome is a much-needed and well-executed guide to understanding and resolving the white knight syndrome in yourself.

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Review

According to clinical psychologists Dr Mary C. Lamia and Dr Marylin J. Krieger, authors of The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from the Need to Rescue Others (New Harbinger), there are four kinds of rescuer...Balanced, Overly Empathetic, Terrorised/Terrified, and Tarnished...
--Psycholgies, November 2009

Edition details

• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626543704
• ISBN 13: 9781626543706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214