Emotional Blackmail
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You Susan Forward, Donna Frazier
Publisher: Perennial Currents
ISBN: 0060928972
Edition: Paperback; 1998-04-01
Summary:
"If you really loved me..." "After all I've done for you..." "How can
you be so selfish..." Do any of the above sound familiar? They're all
examples of emotional blackmail, a powerful form of manipulation in
which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what
they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our
relationships with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our
deepest secrets. They are our mothers, our partners, our bosses and
coworkers, our friends and our lovers. And no matter how much they
care about us, they use this intimate knowledge to give themselves
the payoff they want: our compliance. Susan Forward knows what pushes
our hot buttons. Just as John Gray illuminates the communications gap
between the sexes in Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and
Harriet Lerner describes an intricate dynamic in The Dance of Anger,
so Susan Forward presents the anatomy of a relationship damaged by
manipulation, and gives readers an arsenal of tools to fight back. In
her clear, no-nonsense style, Forward provides powerful, practical
strategies for blackmail targets, including checklists, practice
scenarios and concrete communications techniques that will strengthen
relationships and break the blackmail cycle for good.
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