"Love Fraud" tells two parallel stories. The first is the outrageous true story of Donna Andersen's marriage to a sociopathic con artist, James Alwyn Montgomery, originally of Sydney, Australia. Montgomery took a quarter-million dollars from her, cheated with at least six women during a two-and-a-half-year relationship, had a child with one of them, and ten days after Andersen left him, married the mother of the child. It was the second time he committed bigamy.The second story is ...

Dealing with a Sociopath explains how to interact with someone who lies, cheats, manipulates and exploits. If you have no choice but to engage with him or her, this book teaches you how to protect yourself.Sociopaths, meaning people who could be diagnosed with antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, histrionic or psychopathic personality disorders, do not follow the rules of regular human interaction. These people can appear to be normal, but they live their lives by manipulating oth...

Recovery from a Sociopath enables you to understand why you feel so shattered by a confusing and abusive relationship, and guides you on how to put your life back together.Sociopaths, meaning people who could be diagnosed with antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, histrionic or psychopathic personality disorders, cannot love you; they can only use you. The profound betrayal by a sociopath shakes you to your core. You suffer emotionally, psychologically, financially, physically and ...

You're in a romantic relationship. It started out as a whirlwind of attention and affection, but now you have a gnawing fear that something is terribly wrong.Or you were in a relationship that was verbally, emotionally, financially or even physically abusive. That person is gone now, but you still don't know how you fell into it, and you're scared it will happen again.Or someone you care about is hooked up with a partner who worries you. You can't understand how your friend...

What happens when sociopaths turn 50? The conventional wisdom among mental health professionals is that they burn out and no longer engage in antisocial behavior. It's not true. "Senior Sociopaths" proves that sociopathic deceit and manipulation continues — or becomes worse — as the perpetrators get older."Senior Sociopaths" is the first book to examine antisocial behavior in the over-50 crowd. This is a far bigger problem than anyone realizes. In America, 14 million people over ag...

Seduced by a Sociopath explains how millions of people pursuing romantic relationships are charming, affectionate, passionate — and fake. These deceptive sociopaths, meaning people with antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, histrionic or psychopathic personality disorders, pursue romantic relationships not for love, but for exploitation. Learn how they convince you to fall for them, so you can spot the charade and escape.Perhaps you're already involved in one of these so-called "re...

Understanding the Sociopath explains, in plain language, the 12% of the population who do not play by the same rules of life as the rest of us. These master manipulators, who have antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, histrionic or psychopathic personality disorders, seem normal at first, but their objective is to use and exploit us.You may already be dealing with one of the 30 million adults in the United States who could be diagnosed with these serious personality disorders. If s...

New, updated edition 2023! Lyn Kelley, Ph.D., CPC, drawing from 25+ years of experience, gives you ALL the little-known secret tactics that controllers and manipulators use but DON'T want you to know! She tells you what to say to the controller to get him off his position and onto yours. How to know the severity of his case, how to know if he can change, how to get "unhooked" and get him to surrender. Here's what you'll learn:What is Control and When Is It Destructive?The Dif...

Web of Lies takes you on an emotional roller-coaster, experienced through the eyes of Sarah Tate, an intelligent, young newcomer to Switzerland who is swept off her feet by an older, more experienced company manager. Within weeks of their meeting, Bill impresses her with a courtship vastly unusual in modern times. He lures Sarah with his intellect along with numerous gifts, expensive restaurants, and trips to luxury hotels. Sarah, who is searching for not only love but security, quickly fi...

Being in a destructive relationship is life draining. It takes so much effort just to make it through the day that everything else takes a back seat. Making the wrong partner choice can suck the life right out of us taking us up and down an emotional roller coaster and playing havoc with our physical mental and spiritual health.If you have:Wanted to leave but don't know howTried to leave but can'tLeft but keep coming backAre waiting for the right time t...

Have you ever dated a predator, a narcissist or a liar? If these characteristics sound at all familiar, chances are that you have:-He is adamant everyone get onside, helping him get where he wants to go, yet he seldom feels gratitude or expresses appreciation-He blames all his mistakes or failures on other people, hangs on to resentments and is highly critical of others-He exhibits no empathy, is deceitful and manipulative, and displays only shallow emotions...

The characteristics of a narcissistic personality and/or narcissistic partner are such that once we finally bridge a connection to our partner's behaviors, there's simply no denying that we've found the answer. In an instant, we recognize our story as identical to all the others and our partner as interchangeable with every narcissist and sociopath on the planet. But making the discovery that the person we love is a fake doesn't magically give us the ability to walk away or make the heartb...