Taming Toxic People: The Science of Identifying and Dealing with Psychopaths at Work & at Home

· Macmillan Publishers Aus.
4.1
7 reviews
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300
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Psychopaths are everywhere. They are your toxic boss, controlling boyfriend, lazy colleague, annoying mother-in-law and negligent friend - the person who gets away with bad behaviour time and time again. While often superficially charming, they are also rude, aggressive, manipulative, duplicitous and dishonest.

Five per cent of the population is psychopathic, which means they are missing the critical human ingredient of empathy. Because they are programmed to put themselves first, these people routinely disrupt and even destroy relationships and organisations, seemingly without consequence.

Drawing on the latest science, bestselling author David Gillespie offers a detailed and practical guide to identifying the psychopath in your midst, then managing the behaviour to minimise the effect on your family, workplace, friendship group or community organisation.


Praise for Taming Toxic People

'This compelling study and guidebook is a must-have for anyone who has a pathologically difficult individual in their life.' Kim Williams

'Gillespie is academically gifted, a linguist, excellent at most things he turns his mind to ... he's a polymath, an old-fashioned Renaissance man, who finds few things dull and everything else interesting.' Courier Mail

'David Gillespie has done a tremendous service to the general public in writing this book.' Huffpost

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4.1
7 reviews
Maryanne
July 25, 2017
Well researched but not well edited. Winding explanations that could be simplified, and obvious errors (Referring to 9/11 as 9th of September 2001). But it is helpful if you're facing a psychopath in real life and need to know how they think.
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About the author

"Gillespie is academically gifted, a linguist, excellent at most things he turns his mind to...he's a polymath, an old-fashioned Renaissance man, who finds few things dull and everything else interesting." The Courier Mail

For the last ten years, former lawyer and bestselling author David Gillespie has devoted himself to exposing forces in today's society that work against our interests as consumers and citizens. Beginning with the Sweet Poison books - a series which kick-started Australia's anti-sugar revolution - he followed those up with Big Fat Lies and Toxic Oil, both about the dangers of seed oils in our diet. He then focussed on education in Free Schools, before returning to the topic of human nutrition in Eat Real Food.

Now David turns his attention to another endemic societal threat - the everyday psychopath.

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