Banish the control freaks, narcissists, and passive-aggressive bloodsuckers from your professional life! Here is the ultimate primer on managing people who add undue stress and obstacles in the workplace.

Whether it's a coworker, subordinate, customer, or boss, there's at least one emotional vampire in every office. These people try your patience, sap your energy, and add an entirely unhealthy dynamic to workplace productivity.

In Emotional Vampires at Work, psychologist Albert J. Bernstein shows you how to spot and understand these dysfunctional elements in the workplace and provides detailed advice on how to cope with them and ensure their toxic behavior doesn?t affect organizational effectiveness.

Written in a witty and entertaining style, and packed with the expert advice of a clinical psychologist, the book is organized according to general vampire types: Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Obsessive-Compulsive.

Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, speaker, columnist, and business consultant. He is the best-selling author of Emotional Vampires and Dinosaur Brains.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 Emotional Vampires: Who Are They?

2 Maturity and Mental Health: Protect Yourself from Emotional Vampires By Thinking More Slowly Than They Do

3 Who Are You?

4 Antisocials

5 Antisocial Bullies and Substance Abusers

6 Con-Artists

7 Antisocial Cultures

8 Histrionics

9 The Magical World of Histrionic Hams

10 Passive-Aggressives

11 Histrionic Cultures

12 Narcissists

13 Narcissistic Legends in Their Own Minds

14 Narcissistic Superstars

15 Narcissistic Cultures

16 Obsessive-Compulsives

17 Obsessive-Compulsive Perfectionists and Puritans

18 Obsessive-Compulsive Cultures

19 Paranoids

20 Vampire Visionaries

21 Paranoid Cultures

22 Dangerously Dysfunctional Cultures: Fifteen Signs that an Organization Is Run by Vampires for Vampires

Epilogue