Dangerous Personalities
An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People
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4.4 • 29 Ratings
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Publisher Description
What makes a narcissist go from self-involved to terrifying? In this national bestseller, Joe Navarro, a leading FBI profiler, unlocks the secrets to the personality disorders that put us all at risk.
“I should have known.”
“How could we have missed the warning signs?”
”I always thought there was something off about him.”
When we wake up to new tragedies in the news every day—shootings, rampages, acts of domestic terrorism—we often blame ourselves for missing the mania lurking inside unsuspecting individuals. But how could we have known that the charismatic leader had the characteristics of a tyrant? And how can ordinary people identify threats from those who are poised to devastate their lives on a daily basis—the crazy coworkers, out-of-control family members, or relentless neighbors?
In Dangerous Personalities, former FBI profiler Joe Navarro has the answers. He shows us how to identify the four most common "dangerous personalities"—the Narcissist, the Predator, the Paranoid, and the Unstable Personality— and how to analyze the potential threat level. Along the way, he provides essential tips and tricks to protect ourselves both immediately and in the long-term, as well as how to heal the trauma of being exposed to the destructive egos in our world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Drawing on his experience as an FBI criminal profiler, Navarro (Louder Than Words) offers readers an thought-provoking course in psychological self-defense by profiling common personality traits of potentially harmful people. Practical above all else, the book covers the four most common personality types of criminals narcissists, predators, the emotionally unstable, paranoiacs providing key identifying features of each. These explanations are straightforward but nevertheless chilling, for example Navarro describes the predator as one who is "unfettered by emotional attachments, conscience, morals, laws, or ethics," victimizing women and children or, in a corporate context, investors, all while displaying a "flat affect" like the BTK killer. The author provides a thorough checklist to help readers evaluate where a problematic individual might fall on the spectrum from taking an "emotional toll" to being an "emotional, psychological, financial, or physical danger." In addition to the obvious warning to maintain distance, there is advice for dealing with each personality type (for example: avoid arguing with the paranoid). As he himself admits, Navarro is not a psychologist, so these are not hard and fast diagnostic tools but a more general, user-friendly set of descriptions and recommendations. The checklists and resource guide alone make this a very useful book to have on hand.
