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Acknowledgments | |
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Children of the Night | |
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Who Are These Emotional Vampires? | |
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Are They Really Vampires? | |
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Antisocial Vampires | |
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Histrionic Vampires | |
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Narcissistic Vampires | |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Vampires | |
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Paranoid Vampires | |
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Maturity and Mental Health | |
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If Emotional Vampires Are Children, What Does It Take to Be a Grown-Up? | |
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What Causes People to Become Emotional Vampires? | |
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Immaturity Versus Evil | |
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The Everybody and Nobody Rule | |
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What If You See Yourself? | |
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The Way of Vampires | |
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How Emotional Vampires Are Different from and More Dangerous than Other Annoying People | |
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Vampires Are Different | |
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Vampires Prey on Humans | |
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Vampires Can't See Themselves in a Mirror | |
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Vampires Are More Powerful in the Dark | |
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Protecting Yourself from Vampires | |
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Lovable Rogues | |
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The Antisocial Types | |
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The Ferrari-Toyota Dilemma | |
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How to Recognize an Antisocial Vampire | |
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The Antisocial Emotional Vampire Checklist: Listening to the Call of the Wild | |
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What the Questions Measure | |
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Vampire Daredevils | |
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Sexy, Thrilling, and Definitely Bad for Your Health | |
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The Physiology of Excitement | |
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Daredevil Hypnosis | |
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Female Daredevils | |
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How Vampires Keep You Coming Back for More | |
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10 Ways to Protect Yourself from Daredevils | |
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Daredevils in Your Life | |
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Daredevil Lovers and Spouses | |
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The Action Hero | |
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The Liar | |
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The Unfaithful Lover | |
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Daredevil Ex-Husband | |
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Daredevil Dads | |
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Daredevil Adult Children | |
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Antisocial Used Car Salesmen | |
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Slicker than Cheap Polyester, So Always Remember to Read the Fine Print | |
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Used Car Hypnosis | |
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Is Honesty Really the Best Policy? | |
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Vampire Bullies | |
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Big, Scary, Powerful, and Stupid as the Guys Who Used to Take Lunch Money | |
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The Instinct for Aggression | |
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Vampire Bully Hypnosis | |
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What to Do About Bullies | |
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How to Do the Unexpected | |
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Antisocial Used Car Salesmen and Bullies in Your Life | |
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Living with a Liar | |
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Bullies in Your Life | |
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Living in a Minefield | |
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Therapy for Antisocial Vampires | |
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The Goal | |
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Anger Control Treatment | |
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Treatment for Addiction | |
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Self-Help | |
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What Will Hurt | |
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Show Business, Vampire Style | |
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The Histrionic Types | |
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What It's Like to Be Histrionic | |
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The Histrionic Dilemma | |
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What the Questions Measure | |
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The Histrionic Vampire Checklist: Living a Soap Opera | |
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How to Protect Yourself from Histrionic Vampires | |
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Vampires Who Ham It Up | |
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Whether It's Sex, Sickness, or Secrets of Success, There's Only One Show Business | |
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Ham-It-Up Hypnosis | |
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Writing a Safe Role for Yourself | |
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Illness as Theater | |
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Celebrities, Fans, and Wannabes | |
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Nine Ways to Protect Yourself from Histrionic Hams | |
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Passive-Aggressive Vampires | |
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Deliver Us from Ghoulies and Ghosties and People Who Are Only Trying to Help | |
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Giving Until It Hurts | |
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Illness as Communication | |
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Passive-Aggressive Hypnosis | |
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The High-Self-Esteem Syndrome | |
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Nine Ways to Protect Yourself from Passive-Aggressive Histrionics | |
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Histrionics in Your Life | |
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Histrionic Martial Arts | |
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My Mother, the Drama Queen | |
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The Queen of Gossip | |
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Your Depressed Sister | |
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Male Histrionics | |
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Therapy for Histrionic Vampires | |
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The Goal | |
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Professional Help | |
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Self-Help | |
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What Will Hurt | |
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Big Egos, Small Everywhere Else | |
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The Narcissistic Types | |
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What It's Like to Be Narcissistic | |
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The Narcissistic Dilemma | |
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Narcissism and Self-Esteem | |
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What the Questions Measure | |
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The Narcissistic Vampire Checklist: Identifying the Self-Styled Smartest, Most Talented, All-Around Best People in the World | |
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Vampires Who Are Legends in Their Own Minds | |
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With Talent Like Theirs, Who Needs Performance? | |
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How Narcissistic Legends Prevent Themselves from Succeeding | |
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Narcissistic Legend Hypnosis | |
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How to Socialize Narcissistic Legends | |
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Nine Ways to Protect Yourself from Narcissistic Legends in Their Own Minds | |
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Vampire Superstars | |
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You've Got to Love These Guys! Worship Them, Actually | |
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Dealing with Superstars' Insatiable Needs | |
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Superstar Hypnosis | |
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Sex and the Superstar | |
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Superstar Depression and Anger | |
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Nine Ways to Protect Yourself from Narcissistic Superstars | |
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Narcissists in Your Life | |
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Pundits from Hell | |
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Tiger Mom | |
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Season's Greetings from the Narcissist in Your Life | |
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Therapy for Narcissistic Vampires | |
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The Goal | |
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Professional Help | |
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Self-Help | |
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What Will Hurt | |
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Too Much of a Good Thing | |
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The Obsessive-Compulsive Types | |
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What It's Like to Be Obsessive-Compulsive | |
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How Much Is Too Much? | |
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Punishment, Where Good and Evil Meet | |
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What the Questions Measure | |
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The Obsessive-Compulsive Vampire Checklist: Vice Masquerading as Virtue | |
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The Obsessive-Compulsive Dilemma | |
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Vampire Perfectionists and Puritans | |
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Can the Undead Be Anal-Retentive? | |
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Why Do They Always Seem Angry? | |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Hypnosis | |
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Product Versus Process | |
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Demanding Priorities | |
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Perfectionists How the Imperfect Can Deal with Perfectionists | |
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Puritans | |
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Meet Your Inner Teenager | |
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Nine Ways to Protect Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsives: What to Do When the Good Guys Are After You | |
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Obsessive-Compulsives in Your Life | |
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Control Freak | |
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Control Freak Parents | |
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Married to a Control Freak | |
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Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Vampires | |
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The Goal | |
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Professional Help | |
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What Will Hurt | |
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Seeing Things That Others Can't | |
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The Paranoid Types | |
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Paranoid Purity | |
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What It's Like to Be Paranoid | |
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The Paranoid Emotional Vampire Checklist: Next Stop, the Twilight Zone | |
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What the Questions Measure | |
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Vampire Visionaries and Green-Eyed Monsters | |
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Inspiration Always Involves Blowing Things out of Proportion | |
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The Paranoid Quest | |
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Paranoid Hypnosis | |
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Visionaries | |
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How to Recognize Crazy Ideas | |
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Paranoids and Religion | |
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Green-Eyed Monsters | |
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The Nine Elements of Vampire-Fighting Strategy: How to Give Paranoids a Glimpse of Reality | |
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Therapy for Paranoid Vampires | |
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The Goal | |
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Professional Help | |
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Self-Help | |
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What Will Hurt | |
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Sunrise at Dracula's Castle | |
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Index | |