Women Who Love Psychopaths, 3rd Ed. – Print

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Women Who Love Psychopaths – 3rd Edition

3rd (and final) Edition of Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm with Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists

By field-pioneer and survivor therapy innovator, Sandra L. Brown, M.A. with Jennifer R. Young, The Institute’s Director of Survivor Services (counseling).

Sandra L. Brown, M.A.

Jennifer R. Young, L.M.H.C

The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology Education is the field-leader and innovator in PLR survivor treatment, research and education. The Institute has created the only recognized Model of Care Treatment approach for PLR survivors following Trauma-Informed Care practices and evidence-based treatment approaches. Sandra is the President of the Association for NPD/Psychopathy Survivor Treatment, Research & Education. www.survivortreatment.com

New in the 3rd edition of Women Who Love Psychopaths:

MORE information than the previous edition of the book!  Since the release of the 2nd Edition nine years ago, we have been hard at work in the areas of survivor recovery techniques, therapist treatment training, and research—what traits in survivors are targeted.

This 3rd Edition contains new material such as:
  • All of our most recent updates on new knowledge of trauma-specific injuries like cognitive dissonance
  • New updates on Super Traits taken from our research with Purdue University
  • Our latest findings on why therapists are missing trauma in survivors because of the ‘atypical’ presentation of PTSD
  • What to look for when finding competent care
  • The basics of what every recovery should include
  • And so much more…
This is the ‘ultimate field guide for recovery’ taking more than three years to prepare and write. It is not only The Institute’s latest book but the FINAL full-length book on Pathological and Toxic Love Relationships.

This book, complete with survivor worksheets and information for assessing partner possible disorders, can help –

Survivors

  • Understand your own personality profile (identified as ‘targeted’ by these disordered personalities), taken from our 30 years of treating the survivors and the only research ever done on narcissist and psychopath’s victims, so that you can take pro-active steps to guard these ‘super traits’ (that are most targeted) by preventing another painful relationship
  • Make sense of the crazy-making relationship dynamics, ‘why they do that,’ how they differ from other dysfunctional relationships, why you didn’t see them coming, and how to spot them in the future
  • Learn what disordered personalities can never do in relationships, how their disorders were created and the neuroscience of their brain (which prevents lasting change), use our worksheets to see which disorders they are likely to have, what you can expect from their functionality, and why you were so harmed
  • Understand the #1 symptom in all Pathological Love Relationship (PLR) survivors—cognitive dissonance, how it’s created, what survivors are likely doing that is INCREASING traumatic symptoms, and the layers of cognitive dissonance which each need focused recovery treatment or self-help
  • Wonder why a therapist has missed your trauma symptoms? Understand the undiscussed reality of the unique type of PLR PTSD that has atypical symptoms that therapists don’t recognize. Recognize how cognitive dissonance is making your PLR PTSD worse and what needs to happen
  • Assess your own traumatic symptoms, fix why your recovery has stalled, use our guides to find competent care and learn what to avoid, understand why your therapist might be missing important clues to your needed treatment, and learn what your therapist needs to know
  • Think you are codependent or an empath? Learn why these are likely untrue, why you won’t get well getting treatment for these, and what you need to focus on
  • Have you been told you just need to ‘trust your gut’ to avoid a PLR in the future! Learn why this is not true for PLR PTSD survivors and why doing exactly that is likely to end up in another PLR! Learn why you have inconsistent intuition and what trauma has done to your intuition system
  • Want to institute self-help measures? Get our Recovery Basics that can get you on the path to recovery even before you find a therapist

Family and Friends 

  • What you should know about what the survivor has been through and why she isn’t getting over it quickly
  • The depth and breadth of her traumatic injuries and what she needs in order to recover

Therapists of the Survivors 

  • Stop wrong diagnosis, understand hidden atypical PTSD symptoms, identify the risk factors inherent in her personality trait elevations, work with the #1 often hidden symptom in this genre-specific population

General Public 

  • Learn the signs and symptoms of life and soul-destroying disorders—the impact to the partner, children, and societal systems—before you end up in one of these relationships of ‘inevitable harm,’ and why everyone should be concerned.

Sandra says, “I am enormously proud of this book–we have come so far in being able to document the theory of Pathological Relationships, a much deeper understanding of why the trauma is so severe, the strategic problems most survivors are having in finding competent care and more importantly, what they can do now to stop worsening their trauma.  It is absolutely everything I know and have to say as one of the pioneering therapists in this field.”
 

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Special Notice from The Institute–Colleagues latest survivors book

Special Notice from The Institute–Colleagues latest survivors book

Dear Institute Reader;

Rarely do we send an extra email besides our weekly newsletter but it isn’t often that one of our colleagues writes an extraordinary book that can help millions of domestic violence and pathological love relationship survivors.  It is also unusual that the author is not available to do her own promotion of her latest autobiography of pathological torture.Our colleague Susan Murphy Milano has Stage IV cancer so we are part of a ‘virtual’ online book tour that will help bring her book in front of millions of other survivors.

Susan’s father a decorated Chicago police officer was a child abuser, wife beater and ultimately a murderer. Holding My Hand Through Hell is a personal autobiography, a true crime memoir of a life of service to survivors.  Below is a book review I wrote about the book. I hope you will consider reading this book–not only to understand the woman behind the work but The Institute has consistently encouraged our survivors to find their place in public pathology education and to serve and educate others. Susan’s life is a testament to how a survivor can change an entire field. What Susan did is unusual but it’s not impossible and I am challenging all our readers to follow in her foot steps to shed light on pathology.

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Book Review of ‘Holding My Hand Through Hell’
Author Susan Murphy Milano
Review by Sandra L. Brown, MA
The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology Education

What does an early childhood of alcoholism, sexual abuse, and the witnessing of violence in the home produce?  For decades psychology has been studying the effects on victims of these impactful early beginnings. What psychology discovered was for some victims they would succumb to addiction, repeated patterns of victim/abuser relationships, or crippling mental illness. These early impressionable  years in children’s lives often marred their adult futures with the scars of abuse.

 

And while childhood is the fragile soil from which traumatic imprints can sink deeply into the emotional roots of a victim, what about trauma in adulthood? What happens to adults when unthinkable traumas invade? Or worse—when both a victim’s childhood AND adulthood are contaminated with overwhelming pain? What does the trauma tonics of childhood abuse and the added experiences of a murdered mother and a suicided father do to a victim?

 

From the surface, psychology would ‘predict’ the victim of these combined traumas would likely develop the emotional catatonia produced from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Early childhood coping mechanisms that were not fully developed because of trauma, gets a double dose as an adult forcing an adult to call on coping mechanisms that were never produced in childhood.  This is often the kiss of dysfunction for a victim.

 

But for the resilient, these trauma tonics produce pioneers.

 

In the unusual cases of hyper-resiliency, too many traumas often create a metamorphic response turning terror into a piercing intensity of determination. Where the cruel hand of victimization normally would turn an adult into a fetal-positioned ball of anxiety, the resilient phoenix rises out of the ashes riding the horse of advocacy out of the apocalypse.

 

In this victimology- trilogy Susan Murphy Milano morphed from abused child to adult survivor to victim advocate before her super hero cape ever unfurled. What would scorch most adults psyches merely ignited a flame of indomitably in Susan’s mind to somehow prevent further intimate partner homicides.

 

That is a simple analogy for a complex career spanning decades of saving people’s lives in the most unorthodox of ways.  Seeing your parents blood splattered across a house has a way of changing the playing field…and the rules. So there were few rules for Susan in saving people’s lives.  And there weren’t any she wouldn’t consider breaking if it meant keeping one more woman alive. When you aren’t playing by anyone else’ rules the possibilities are endless and thinking outside the box for answers becomes the norm which is why her extraordinary thinking produced extraordinary results and why years from now much of her work will still be considered revolutionary.

 

For every survivor who wondered if she could ever take the pain of violence and put it through the grist mill of experience and help others because of it–you won’t want to miss reading Holding My Hand Through Hell by Susan Murphy Milano who will do more than convince you that God recycles pain–it will show you a magnificent life lived in the service of others, that we may all heal.
Sandra L. Brown, The Institute

You can purchase the book at :
SusanMurphy-Milano.Com
HoldingMyHandThroughHell.Com
IceCubePress.Com

Crash Course Box I

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Crash Course Box I

The Institute, the leading expert in Pathlogical Love Relationships has put together a comprehensive approach to these unique and dangerous relationships.

  • The book ‘How to Spot a Dangerous Man’ (Retail $14.95)
  • The workbook ‘How to Spot a Dangerous Man’ (Retail $9.95)
  • The desktop reference book ‘Counseling Victims of Violence’ (Retail $19.95)
  • The e-book ‘Women Who Love Psychopaths’ 2nd Edition (Retail $24.95)
  • The CD Collection of 7.5 HOURS of training by Sandra (Retail $80.00)
  • Understanding & Healing From Pathological Relationships 2.5 HOUR PowerPoint Presentation (use it in group, use it for community lectures and presentations, use it to train other therapists)–Your CHOICE: the regular community version or the Christian community version
  • Our 1 Hour Long Guided Relaxation CD (Retail $40)

We’ll also add a complimentary gift of:

  • The e-book ‘How to Break Up From a Pathological Relationship’ ($9.95)

With the Crash Course Box you are ready to work with survivors:

  • In individual coaching
  • Materials from which to run group
  • Work with survivors about pathological parenting issues
  • Assist survivors in terminating their pathological relationships
  • Utilize a desktop reference book for coaching issues

and more!

The package includes 3 print books, 7 CD’s, a PowerPoint, a guided relaxation CD, and 3 e-books for $150 plus shipping/handling.

Download links are emailed to your PayPal email address after your payment clears – see below for more info.

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Crash Course Box II

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The Crash Course Box II

The Institute, the leading expert in Pathlogical Love Relationships has put together a comprehensive approach to these unique and dangerous relationships.

  • The book ‘How to Spot a Dangerous Man’ (Retail $14.95)
  • The workbook ‘How to Spot a Dangerous Man’ (Retail $9.95)
  • The desk top reference book ‘Counseling Victims of Violence’ (Retail $19.95)
  • The e-book ‘Women Who Love Psychopaths’ 2nd Edition (Retail $24.95)
  • The CD Collection of 7.5 HOURS of training by Sandra (Retail $80.00)
  • Understanding & Healing From Pathological Relationships 2.5 HOUR Power Point Presentation (use it in group, use it for community lectures and presentations, use it to train other therapists)–Your CHOICE: the regular community version or the Christian community version
  • Our 1 Hour Long Guided Relaxation CD (Retail $40)
  • 2 hour DVD 1 ‘Understanding Destructive & Pathological Relationships’ (retail $65.00)
  • 2 hour DVD 2 ‘Healing The Aftermath of Pathological Love Relationships’ (retail $65.00)
  • 2 hour DVD 3 ‘Treating the Pathological Love Relationships: Understanding Pathology and It’s Affect on Relational Health (retail $65.00)

(Many survivors give some of these products to their own counselors who need better understanding of the pathological relationship dynamics.)

We’ll also add a complimentary gift of:

  • The e-book ‘How to Break Up From a Pathological Relationship’ ($9.95)
With the Crash Course Box you are ready to work with survivors:
  • In individual coaching
  • Materials from which to run group
  • Work with survivors about pathological parenting issues
  • Assist survivors in terminating their pathological relationships
  • Utilize a desk top reference book for coaching issues and more!
  • (DVD’s normally sell for $65 each, but in the Crash Course, reduced to $30 each)


AND the addition of the e-book ‘Maintaining Mindfulness in the Midst of Obsession’ and two CD’s that help reduce symptoms of Cognitive Dissonance (normally $39.95 when purchased separately)
The package includes 4 print books, 7 CD Series, a powerpoint, a guided relaxation CD, 3 DVD’s and 3 e-books, and 2 Cd’s on Cognitive Dissonance for $275.00 (plus S&H)

Download links are emailed to your PayPal email address after your payment clears – see below for more info.

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Counseling Victims Of Violence

Counseling Victims of Violence

Desktop Reference Book For Human Service Workers

This Quick-Glance desk top reference book helps human service workers of all kinds find immediate information on various types of victimization and the corresponding counseling issues.

Victimizations and counseling approaches from cyber-stalking to homicide, from child abuse to terrorism is laid out in an easy to use format.

At a Glance you will be able to see:

  • What are the crisis counseling issues likely to be?
  • What kinds of secondary victimizations are likely?
  • What kinds of social services would be needed in this case?
  • What kinds of resources, books, websites and national organizations can I refer them to?
  • What are the short term counseling issues likely to be if I continue working with them?
  • What are the long term counseling issues likely to be and what resources are available?

Also included are recommend books and clinical references for those that might like more education on the victimization topic.

Price: $19.95  plus shipping/handling.

Book will be signed by the author

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Pathology Pack

Combo pack

How to Spot a Dangerous Man (print) + Women Who Love Psychopaths 2nd Edition (e-book)

Combine two great sellers for powerful insight.

Only $26.00 (plus shipping and handling)

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