Understanding and Dealing with Controlling, Intimidating and Manipulative Personalities

This book will examine at individuals who control, intimate, and manipulate in work, home, family, and social environments, using robust Psychological theory to comprehend and successfully tackle those who exhibit these behaviours. The focus of this book will be to look at general Personality theory together with more specific focus on the Dark Triad of personality traits and, from the Five Factor Model, the domain of Agreeableness vs Antagonism. This approach will build a greater understanding of a much broader form of controlling intimidating and manipulative personality type. The book will include both useable techniques as well as self-reflection exercises the reader can use or pass on to students, clients and service users. This book is based on a programme the author has been teaching for over twelve years to a range of audiences across a variety of roles and has also been highlighted frequently in the press over the past decade.

• Publication date: 4 September 2025
• Page count: 188
• Dimensions: Height 235 mm; Width 155 mm
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-13: 9783031633089