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Emotional Blackmail

Emotional Blackmail

By Susan Forward

When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You. HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

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A brief summary of Emotional Blackmail

A no-nonsense guide to relationships tinged by a form of manipulation called emotional blackmail, providing clear steps and a plethora of practical examples to allow victims to take back control and regain their self-worth.

Key insights in Emotional Blackmail

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What do you get from this book? How to recognize, prevent, and recover from emotional blackmail
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Emotional blackmail involves using intimate knowledge of a person’s fears and vulnerabilities to exert control in all types of relationships
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All emotional blackmail has the same purpose, but there are four distinct types of blackmailers who use different control techniques
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Emotional blackmail destroys the trust in a relationship, using fear, obligation, and guilt as a means of exerting control
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Blackmailers fear frustration and hate to lose, and will use emotional blackmail to maintain a connection with you
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When you repress emotions, you build up inner hot buttons, which blackmailers don’t hesitate to use for their own purposes
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To change the way you deal with blackmail, you must change both your behavior and your deeply held beliefs
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Break a blackmailer’s demand into parts and consider each aspect separately, while asking yourself some difficult questions
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Strategies such as non-defensive communication are the key to taking back control of the conversation
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Fear, obligation, and guilt leave you vulnerable to emotional blackmail, so it's time to turn off the fog
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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read Emotional Blackmail

Psychologists • counselors • social workers • parents • grandparents • anyone wanting to stand up to manipulation • anyone wanting to repair a toxic relationship

About the author of Emotional Blackmail

Susan Forward is a therapist and author with extensive experience and knowledge about toxic relationships, having previously penned bestselling books about unhealthy parent-child and love relationships including Toxic Parents and Men Who Hate Women.

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