Vampires & Psychology

2002

HARBOUR, Dorothy--Energy Vampires: A Practical Guide for Psychic Self-Protection*
An overblown new age book that teaches you how to bump up the old aura to resist and even cure your vampiric spouse, child, friend colleague etc etc

SLATE, Joe. H.--Psychic Vampires: Protection from Energy Predators and Parasites*
From individual psychic vampires to "global vampirism"; The vampire concept is thoroughly overblown and overextended here

2001

BERNSTEIN, Albert J. (PhD)--Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry****
A brilliant book that clothes advice about dealing with people with personality disorders: antisocial, histrionic, narcissistic, obsessive-compulsive and paranoid -- clothed in a thorough and witty vampire metaphor -- not using the vampire motif literally.

1996

HORT, Barbara E.--Unholy Hungers: Encountering the Psychic Vampire in Ourselves and Others*
A Jungian take on psychic or emotional vampires--people who drain other's energy.

1995

RICKELS, Laurence A.--The Vampire Lectures***
A Freudian thought-fest, rich but with barely a nod to structure… fun if you can get into it. Draws on myth, literature, film, rock & roll and a lot of other things. Rickels must be a fun Prof.

HARRIS, Helaine Z.--Are You in Love with a Vampire: Healing the Relationship Drain Game.*
Beyond co-dependency… the vampire relationship. Energy flows, spiritual development, the whole thing.