Controlling People

This timely book not only helps readers free themselves from controlling people but also seeks to explain the occurrence of verbal abuse, battering, stalking, harassment, hate crimes, gang violence, tyranny, terrorism, and territorial invasion.

What the author calls a "compelling force" overcomes these controllers; because they sense the overwhelming "psychic pain, distress, an...

This timely book not only helps readers free themselves from controlling people but also seeks to explain the occurrence of verbal abuse, battering, stalking, harassment, hate crimes, gang violence, tyranny, terrorism, and territorial invasion.

What the author calls a "compelling force" overcomes these controllers; because they sense the overwhelming "psychic pain, distress, and discord permeating the world," they must impose a twisted kind of order on their friends, lovers, and acquaintances. Often people with good intentions end up doing the opposite of what they would need to do to realize a goal or fulfill a need. 352 pages. Softcover. 2002.

帕萃丝·埃文斯，加拿大埃文斯人际关系研究中心创始人。在全美建立了许多工作室，著述颇丰。其处女作《口头侵害关系》，被《新闻周刊》誉为一次“根本性的突破”。