{"product_id":"emotional-blackmail-when-the-people-in-your-life-use-fear-obligation-and-guilt-to-manipulate-you-9780060928971","title":"Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA practical guide to better communication that will break the blackmail cycle for good, by one of the nation's leading therapists, Susan Forward. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Breathe a sigh of relief! Susan Forward helps you identify and correct an intensely destructive and confusing pattern of relating with those you love. I highly recommend this important book!\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of \u003cem\u003eFeel the Fear and Do It Anyway\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you really loved me...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"After all I've done for you...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How can you be so selfish...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Forward knows what pushes our hot buttons. Just as John Gray illuminates the communications gap between the sexes in \u003cem\u003eMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, \u003c\/em\u003e and Harriet Lerner describes an intricate dynamic in \u003cem\u003eThe Dance of Anger, \u003c\/em\u003e so Susan Forward presents the anatomy of a relationship damaged by manipulation, and gives readers an arsenal of tools to fight back. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForward, Susan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSusan Forward, PhD, is an internationally renowned therapist, lecturer, and author. Her books include the number-one \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestsellers \u003cem\u003eMen Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eToxic Parents\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to her private practice, she has served as a therapist, instructor, and consultant in numerous Southern California psychiatric and medical facilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620982264082,"sku":"9780060928971","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e61ffc8-0182-4786-99d1-d301022bf543.jpg?v=1732577746","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/emotional-blackmail-when-the-people-in-your-life-use-fear-obligation-and-guilt-to-manipulate-you-9780060928971","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}