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Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Emotional vampires : who are they? -- Maturity and mental health : protect yourself from emotional vampires by thinking more slowly than they do -- Who are you? -- Antisocials -- Antisocial bullies and substance abusers -- Con-artists -- Antisocial cultures -- Histrionics -- The magical world of histrionic hams -- Passive-aggressives -- Histrionic cultures -- Narcissists -- Narcissistic legends in their own minds -- Narcissistic superstars -- Narcissistic cultures -- Obsessive-compulsives -- Obsessive-compulsive perfectionists and puritans -- Obsessive-compulsive cultures -- Paranoids -- Vampire visionaries -- Paranoid cultures -- Dangerously dysfunctional cultures : fifteen signs that an organization is run by vampires for vampires -- Epilogue.