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Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry

Detailing a range of personality types and human responses, this work shows you how to spot the vampires in your life: self-serving Narcissists, hedonistic Antisocials, exhausting Paranoids, or over-the-top Histrionic drama queens. With advice and psychological perspective, it gives you a range of defense strategies against such creatures.

Subject
psychologyself-helpbusinesshealthleadership
Genre
vampire
Themes
relationshipscommunication
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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