9 must-read nonfiction books like The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities by Tim McGregor

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The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities

By: Tim McGregor

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sociopathy affects an estimated 1- 4% of the population, but not all sociopaths are cold-blooded mu…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities by Tim McGregor , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. We Should All Be Feminists

By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.40

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I am just as human as the man."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

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2. The Sociopath Next Door

By: Martha Stout

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matt…"

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

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3. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

By: Brianna Wiest

3.76

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Hold yourself to your standard."

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

"Anything other than ideal is not failure. It’s life."

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

"We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too"

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

"There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler"

-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

4. A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

By: Jack Holland

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In this compelling, powerful book, the late Irish journalist and essayist Jack Holland set out to a… read more

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5. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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6. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and Tim McGregor's The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities

  • relationships
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

7. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

By: Lundy Bancroft

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abus… read more

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8. 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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9. Only Love is Real

By: Brian L. Weiss

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

HAVE YOU LOVED -- AND LOST -- SOMEONE ACROSS TIME?In Brian Weiss's bestseller Many Lives, Many Mast… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"El amor es una flor que brota en las cuatro estaciones."

-Brian L. Weiss, Only Love is Real

"There is someone special for everyone. Often there are two or three or even four. They come from different enerations. They travel across oceans of time and the depths of heavenly dimensions to be wi…"

-Brian L. Weiss, Only Love is Real

10. Games People Play

By: Eric Berne

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback

We think we're relating to other people. Actually we're all playing games. Forty years ago, Games P… read more

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11. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

By: Brian L. Weiss

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that chang… read more

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12. The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

By: Brianna Wiest

4.09

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Don’t worry about doing it well; just do it."

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

"Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become."

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

"No wonder why we build our own cages and stay in them, even though there's no lock on the door."

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

"Arrive into the present. There is a saying that if you are anxious, it's because you are living in the future. And if you are depressed, it's because you are living in the past. When you are living i…"

-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

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13. The Last White Man

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more

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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"

-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

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14. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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15. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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16. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

By: Tom Bower

3.86

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more

Similar categories in Tom Bower's Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors book and Tim McGregor's The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities

  • nonfiction
"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"

-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

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17. The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities

By: Tim McGregor

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sociopathy affects an estimated 1- 4% of the population, but not all sociopaths are cold-blooded mu… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities book and Tim McGregor's The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities

  • relationships
  • counselling
  • research
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help

7 best-selling self help books like The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities by Tim McGregor

Transform Your Habits

The Sociopath Next Door

Martha Stout

3.77

Transform Your Habits

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Brianna Wiest

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Only Love is Real

Brian L. Weiss

4.16

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16 best-selling audiobook books like Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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