13 best-selling self help books like Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator by Martha Stout

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Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator

By: Martha Stout

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Dr. Martha Stout's influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a soci…

If you liked the self help plot in Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator by Martha Stout , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed

By: Daniel J. Siegel , Jeffrey Young , Wendy T. Behary

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Do you know someone who is overly arrogant, shows an extreme lack of empathy, or exhibits an inflat… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control In Personal Relationships

By: Adelyn Birch

4.17

Format: None pages,

Don't allow manipulators to gain the upper hand. This small but powerful 33-page book focuses succi… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People by George K. Simon Jr.

3. In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People

By: George K. Simon Jr.

4.00

Format: 371 pages,

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

4. The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

By: Walter Mischel

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and ho… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward, Donna Frazier

5. Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You

By: Susan Forward , Donna Frazier

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Emotional blackmail is a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to puni… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

6. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

By: Robert D. Hare , Paul Babiak

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants some… read more

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7. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

By: Tom Shachtman , Robert K. Ressler

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Ro… read more

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8. Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People

By: Jackson MacKenzie

5.00

Format: 120 pages,

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9. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

By: Robert D. Hare

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers… read more

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10. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

By: M.E. Thomas

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopathis an engrossing, highly captivating narrat… read more

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11. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

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12. How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic pa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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13. Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

By: Ryan Green

3.92

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1988, detectives from the Sacramento Police Department were called to investigate the disappeara… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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14. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

By: Florence Williams

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take s…"

-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

"These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with processing sensory and motor information. …"

-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

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15. Jak lepiej myśleć. Dla analizujących bez końca i wysoko wrażliwych

By: Christel Petitcollin

2.99

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Po lekturze książki Jak mniej myśleć zapewne wiesz już, że zaliczasz się do kręgu osób analizującyc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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16. 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities

By: Bill Eddy

3.93

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Some difficult people aren't just hard to deal with--they're dangerous. Do you know someone whose m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
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17. Gaslighting. Jak uwolnić się od przemocy w relacjach

By: Patrycja Jaskuła

3.95

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Pamiętaj: Nie jesteś przewrażliwiona. Nie jesteś niczemu winna. Jesteś wystarczająco dobra. To … read more

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18. Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator

By: Martha Stout

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Dr. Martha Stout's influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a soci… read more

Similar categories in Martha Stout's Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator book and Martha Stout's Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • true crime
  • research
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • science
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19. Stop Walking on Eggshells (Third Edition): Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Randi Kreger

4.03

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped more than a million people with friends and family mem… read more

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  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Anubis (Igor Brudny, #7) by Przemysław Piotrowski

20. Anubis (Igor Brudny, #7)

By: Przemysław Piotrowski

3.53

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Każdy odpowie za swoje grzechy. Gdyby nie meldunek z Interpolu, to akta tej sprawy nadal kurzyły… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse

By: Shahida Arabi

4.43

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

"Shahida Arabi weaves life wisdom and insight with empowering scientific research, not leaving any … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Once someone has been traumatized again and again by someone who claimed to love them, once an abuser has warped the victim's reality and caused him or her to mistrust their perceptions through gasli…"

-Shahida Arabi, POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse

"Ten Things To Stop Doing" By Complex PTSD Survivor Lilly Hope Lucario" 1. Listening to unsolicited advice from those who know little about trauma, or those with little empathy. 2. Comparing your jour…"

-Shahida Arabi, POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse

9 best-selling audiobook books like Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator by Martha Stout

Transform Your Habits

Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed

Daniel J. Siegel , Jeffrey Young , Wendy T. Behary

4.11

Transform Your Habits

It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Transform Your Habits

How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

Gerd Gigerenzer

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder

Ryan Green

3.92

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14 must-read self help books like Stop Walking on Eggshells (Third Edition): Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Randi Kreger

Transform Your Habits

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Randi Kreger , Paul T. Mason

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

Lisa Damour

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity

Melanie Greenberg

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get on with Life

Margalis Fjelstad

3.63

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