04460nam a22006255i 4500 978-3-031-63306-5 DE-He213 20251030112931.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240902s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031633065 978-3-031-63306-5 10.1007/978-3-031-63306-5 doi BF698-698.9 BF697-697.5 JMS bicssc PSY023000 bisacsh JMS thema Smith, Martin J. author. (orcid)0009-0005-7513-3400 https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7513-3400 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 83527 Understanding and Dealing with Controlling, Intimidating and Manipulative Personalities [electronic resource] / by Martin J Smith. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 188 p. 15 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction - Once upon a time in Nottingham -- 2. Listening to the Alarm Bells -- 3. Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking -- 4. CIM personality - What are we talking about? -- 5. An Introduction to Personality theory -- 6. The Dark Triad and the Dark Tetrad -- 7. Other Difficult / Challenging Personality types -- 8. Initial Engagement and Management Strategies for DT and other difficult and challenging personalities -- 9. The CIM control strategies -- 10. Drama / Influence and Impression Management -- 11. Useful Strategies to manage CIM interactions -- 12. Conclusion and some final thoughts. This book will examine at individuals who control, intimate, and manipulate in work, home, family, and social environments, using robust Psychological theory to comprehend and successfully tackle those who exhibit these behaviours. The focus of this book will be to look at general Personality theory together with more specific focus on the Dark Triad of personality traits and, from the Five Factor Model, the domain of Agreeableness vs Antagonism. This approach will build a greater understanding of a much broader form of controlling intimidating and manipulative personality type. The book will include both useable techniques as well as self-reflection exercises the reader can use or pass on to students, clients and service users. This book is based on a programme the author has been teaching for over twelve years to a range of audiences across a variety of roles and has also been highlighted frequently in the press over the past decade. Martin J Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the social sciences at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and an independent training consultant. He specialises in extreme difficult behaviour and personality issues which go well beyond simply awkward and often highly controlling, intimidating and manipulative. He has over thirty years training experience in communication, interpersonal skills and conflict management. He is also a psychotherapist specialising in the treatment of anxiety, depression, stress, phobias and post traumatic stress disorders with over 23 years clinical experience. Personality. 72675 Difference (Psychology). 72676 Social psychology. 59087 Psychology, Industrial. 60537 Psychology. 63758 Philosophy of mind. Ethics. 58934 Self. 57581 Personality and Differential Psychology. 72677 Social Psychology. 59087 Organizational Psychology. 72566 Behavioral Sciences and Psychology. 68075 Moral Psychology. 74846 Philosophy of the Self. 72678 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031633058 Printed edition: 9783031633072 Printed edition: 9783031633089 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63306-5 ZDB-2-BSP ZDB-2-SXBP 63019 63019