The Emotionally Abusive Relationship, Beverly Engel
The Emotionally Abusive Relationship, Beverly Engel
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The Emotionally Abusive Relationship
How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

Author: Beverly Engel

Narrator: Deanna Hurst

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Abuse


Synopsis

This prescriptive book shows emotionally abused people how to find help and help themselves; it also shows emotionally abusive people how to stop abusing.

About Beverly Engel

Beverly Engel, LMFT, is an internationally recognized psychotherapist and an acclaimed advocate for victims of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. She is the author of more than twenty self-help books, including four bestselling books on emotional abuse: The Emotionally Abused Woman, Encouragements for the Emotionally Abused Woman, The Emotionally Abusive Relationship, and Healing Your Emotional Self. Many of her books have been chosen for various book clubs, including the One Spirit Book Club, Psychology Today book club, and Behavioral Sciences book club. Engel frequently lends her expertise to national television talk shows; she has appeared on Oprah, CNN, and Starting Over, and many other TV programs. She has a blog on the Psychology Today website, and regularly contributes to the Psychology Today magazine. Engel is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and has been practicing psychotherapy for thirty-five years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Juliana on February 29, 2008

As opposed to The Verbally Abusive Relationship by Patricia Evans, this book was fair, even and dedicated to working toward a solution. It explored in depth (or rather, encouraged the reader to explore in depth) the root causes of abuse. It explored the reasons why people become abusive, and why peo......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on October 10, 2011

I had hoped that by reading this book to gain a little more clarity on everything that has happened. While it helped reinforce what an abusive relationship looked like, it wasn't as proficient at helping figure out what they next steps were except for a few cases with specific qualifications. This b......more

Goodreads review by Randall on May 22, 2016

Emotional abusers use only three weapons: fear, obligation and guilt (so watch for those three critical red flags). These abusers are lazy; they will quickly want to affect how you perceive yourself so you will also partly be doing their work for them. It’s like getting to be your own prison guard,......more

Goodreads review by Emmanuelle on January 07, 2020

This Book is a great support to understand the relationship between victimes and who are abusing them. It's more complexe, relevant than the bunch of Books read in this field which compared abuser=vampire🙃 it's really not the case, and WE Can feel that is the autor's experience like mine. There are......more