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Surrounded by Psychopaths

Or, How to Stop Being Exploited by Others

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Surrounded by Psychopaths

By: Thomas Erikson
Narrated by: David John
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Brought to you by Penguin.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots.

Some people are exceptionally manipulative. They can convince anyone about anything and lure them with their charm. They enjoy controlling others and will do anything to get what they want.

Sound familiar?

The bad news is that you can’t really escape them. But here comes the good news: you can beat them at their own game.

After going through the highs and lows of different personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow) in his international bestseller Surrounded by Idiots, Swedish behavioural expert Thomas Erikson will now show you how your weaknesses and personality traits can be exploited by other people and how you can stop them in their tracks.

By learning more about your personality type and how you work, you’ll be able to see through any psychopath's manipulative behaviours and fend off their attempts to wreak havoc into your life.

Witty, engaging and informative, this book will give you everything you need to handle life’s most skilled manipulators and identify the psychopaths in your life...before it’s too late!

©2020 Thomas Erikson (P)2020 Penguin Audio Education Personal Success Psychology Witty Inspiring Mental Health

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insightful

One of the few books I've read that simplifies response to these types - just get away from them.

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They need to change the narrator

It was hard to keep focus on the narrator. I had to repeat some sections over and over to hear the section properly.

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its very helpful

this book is very helpful and i am grateful for being able to listen to it

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A must read for everyone

Absolutely riveting. After meeting the psychopaths that have crossed through my life I have learned many things. This book has given me ALL the answers. This book is a life changing read and makes your life easy from now on. You simply do not entertain another one. You run. Thank you to the author as the words are incredibly valuable. I’m about to read Surrounded by idiots now. Yeahaaa.

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A very interesting/scary read about human behaviours

A must read for anyone struggling to understand some human behaviours. I must admit I bought it as some fun light reading material but I was so intrigued and a little freaked out that I read it again a second time to be able to absorb it some more. I highly recommend as a very thought provoking book. Very well narrated. Thank you to the author. I Will be looking for other books in his series.

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Interesting

A great outlook and way of understanding the bigger picture of personality types including how to avoid being abused by them and recognising behaviours.

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More like pop psychology

I found this book tedious with too much reliance on a coloured disc personality tool that mainly relates to working styles. This book relates these working styles somewhat to social settings. Psychopathic tendencies are woven in to the different personality styles as the victim or perpetrator. Each chapter begins with a random quote without explaining anything about the person who made the quote. I think that one quote was from a fantasy writer!
There is no mention of the DSM-5 which clinicians refer to for making a diagnosis which I find surprising (at least by the time I stopped listening). The DSM-5 came out in 2013 where Psychopathy is described as Anti-social personality disorder. This book makes mention of Borderline Personality Disorder but I heard nothing about Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I may be wrong, but I got the distinct impression that the writer is not a qualified psychologist. I much prefer reading examples of behaviours observed first hand by trained professionals . If you’re intent in understanding psychopathic behaviour, take a look at the DSM-5, and read books dedicated to the different personality disorders. For a more light hearted look at psychopaths, I found Jon Ronson’s book ‘The Psychopath Test’ very interesting and more informative.

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Not for me

Found I just couldn’t get into it. Reader was monotonous. This one not for me.

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