Why overthinking is the recipe for manipulation

After more than twenty years working alongside victims of mental manipulation, I’ve been able to decode the personality of manipulators, that of their victims, and study the components of the strange bond that connects them. I’ve reached a surprising conclusion: the more intelligent you are, the more manipulable you become. The paradox is only superficial. Indeed, an intelligent person seeks to understand, tries to integrate the other’s perspective, wants to find common ground, and refuses to give up. But a manipulator lies, denies reality, and deliberately creates the very conflicts they feed on. Worse still, the manipulator binds you through your own humanist values and twists them to serve their own ends.

This book gives you concrete tools to understand how manipulators use your own mental web to weave their trap. Your intelligence is actually meant for far greater things than being someone’s prey.