Review: Utterley useless - skip it
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
I'm astounded by the 4 and 5 star reviews which precede this one.  The first 72% of the book was about identifying controlling people, with many examples.  (Only another 14% is this book, the remainder is his preview of another book.)  Several times he cited psychiatric observations, definitions, and conclusions.  Finally, Chapter 5 is titled How to Deal with Controlling People.  Way #1:  "Don't let them manipulate you.", followed by Distance yourself from control freaks, Do not get into trouble with them, and Hope that things get better in time, because "... eventually they will change because somehow, sometime, they might realize that their attitude is keeping people away and they will realize their faults."  He must have let his psychiatric advisor go too soon, because the realization of this hope in real life seems to be extremely rare.Along with many grammatical errors, which cause much rereading to discern the author's meaning (it's often unclear whether the author is describing the controller or the victim), you could learn much more, faster, from an internet search.