Taming Toxic People

The Science of Identifying and Dealing with Psychopaths at Work & at Home

Author: David Gillespie

(7 reviews)

Bestselling author David Gillespie turns his attention to a phenomenon that damages businesses, seeds mental disease and discomfort and can bring civilisations to the brink of implosion - the psychopath.

(7 reviews)

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"I didn't know how to deal with the poisonous and toxic people in my life or why they behaved the way they did, so I went looking for an answer. This book is what I found."Bestselling author David Gillespie turns his attention to a phenomenon that damages businesses, seeds mental disease and discomfort and can bring civilisations to the brink of implosion - the psychopath.Psychopaths are often thought of as killers and criminals, but actually five to ten per cent of people are probably psychopathic without ever indulging in a single criminal act. These everyday psychopaths may be charming in the early stages of relationships or employment but, Gillespie argues, their presence in your life is at best disruptive, and at worst highly dangerous: they will leave you feeling cheated and humiliated, dominating and manipulating you to the point where you question your sanity. Worse, he cautions, at a societal level their tendency to gravitate towards positions of power can be disastrous.Taming Toxic People is a practical guide to restraining that difficult person in your life, be it your boss, your spouse or a parent. But it is also a serious and meticulously researched warning: if we value a free and well-functioning society, we need to rebuild the sense of community that has historically kept the everyday psychopath in check, and we must understand and act to manage the psychopathic behaviour in our midst.

Awards

Long-listed for ABIA General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2018

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 MailFor 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 he followed those up with Big Fat Lies and Toxic Oil. He then focused 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.

Product Details

Publisher

Pan Macmillan Australia | Macmillan Australia

Published

25th July 2017

Pages

288

ISBN

9781743535875

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

25 Feb, 2020

Very informative
By Rainer

05 May, 2018

Excellent, thank you to the author; David. Your book saves my life. I feel better and happier at work.
Thanks The Nile for good price and prompt delivery.
I bought 2 already and now getting another 1, my friends enjoy reading it.
Highly recommended, don't strugling at work guys, our lifes are more worth than suffering at work.
By Pornpimon

29 Aug, 2017

Excellent read I am hooked
By Holly

29 Aug, 2017

Absolutely loved it. Explained my boss to a T!!!
By Pauline

25 Aug, 2017

Overall good. Have to deal to a toxic person in the family from time to time. One word throughout the book missing, and only mentioned once "Jealousy". and that is a definite trait. Incessant and obsessive jealousy.
By Jennifer

16 Apr, 2018

By Steve

28 Aug, 2017

By Donna

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