The Psychological Disorientation of Manipulation: Strategies to Recover from the Drama – Alan Godwin

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Summary

• She sucks all the air out of the room.

• I’m so tired of the drama.

• These are common ways of expressing the all-consuming intrusiveness of being emotionally manipulated.

• The manipulators might be relationship partners, neighbors, co-workers, family members, or “friends”, and they occupy psychological space so pervasively that many clients present with complaints of confusion, exhaustion, and the struggle to even know what’s real.

• Dr. Godwin focuses on the psychological effects of manipulation and how therapists can help clients recover from this deeply damaging emotional abuse.