Emotional Vampires - Albert J. Bernstein

There has never been a better time to be an armchair psychologist! Thanks to the success of a number of best-selling books towards the end of the twentieth century, many concepts in psychology that were once strictly the preserve of specialists, have entered into general public awareness. In this shift from minority to majority interest, there have sometimes been dramatic transformations of the dumbing down kind. While people in white coats may still talk in hallowed tones about things like “Transactional Analysis” the general public as a whole get to laugh at adverts featuring an artist’s ... more