Dark Psychology

By Rudolf I. Malle

Dark Psychology is often discussed in a hushed tone. Much information out there makes the topic overly complicated, full of psychology jargon, that will leave you more perplexed than informed. If you have been looking for a means to detect the people in your life who have more toxic traits, then this is the book for you. This book breaks down the concept of dark psychology and provides you with information that you can use to protect yourself against it. In this book, you will learn:

The basic facts about dark psychology.

How to detect and separate truth from deception, even when it has been masterfully masked.

To decode past traumatic experiences from manipulators.

Practical steps to defend yourself and ones from being victims of manipulation.

How to overcome past experiences, protect yourself, and move forward.

This book is broken down into three sections:

Understanding Dark Psychology: The first section will help you to understand the fundamentals of human behavior. It will take you on an intense adventure, exploring the darker avenues of human thoughts and how they manifest in everyday life to manipulate other people.

Identifying and Overcoming Dark Psychology: The second section will help you to confront and overcome people in your life that have displayed these dark psychology traits. We will look at how to have a conversation with these people by reviewing some practical steps you can take to protect yourself and others.

Build Your Mental Defenses Against Dark Psychology: Lastly, it will give you an insightful step-by-step guide to building a solid mental defense against further manipulation.

If you, your family, or loved ones, are currently being manipulated with dark psychology, this book will be a helpful resource for you. It will also be beneficial for those recovering from past trauma, helping them understand the psychology of the manipulator and move towards healing.

At the end of this book, I will also list various resources in the United States that you can look to for further support in dealing with your trauma or assisting a loved one.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Challenge Publishers, Inc
• Release date: May 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201369514

Rudolf I. Malle

Born, raised, and educated in Cameroon, Rudolf Itor Malle is not just another American immigrant story, but he is "The American Success Story with distinction." Rudolf quickly entered into entrepreneurship after earning a Bachelor's degree in business management. Rudolf has been involved in numerous entrepreneurial ventures, including website content creation, graphics designs, business consulting, startups, and angel investing – he is one of the founding members of Angel and Entrepreneurs, led by Niel Patel. After multiple years in the medical field, Rudolf went to earn a Master's degree in Medical Research from Drexel School of Medicine. Rudolf discovered his love for teaching, coaching, and training his team members amid his thriving medical research career. Rudolf has always been a prolific reader from his early age; he has read and listened to over 80 books from different genres, including medical textbooks, psychology, music, history, the ancient empire, romance, and business, over the last 5years. Rudolf decided to initiate a new phase of his professional life as a book writer. His groundbreaking works include Getting Motivated for Success, The Secret to Affiliate Marketing, Building your tribe, and currently Dark Psychology. Rudolf is enjoying his newfound love of writing and book publishing. He is assuring his readers that he has many more works to unfold.

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Introduction

Do you ever feel like you are being manipulated? Like you are a pawn in someone’s chess game? Do you feel like you are being tied down and need to break free? These feelings can be exhausting. Unfortunately, many of us go through life with this feeling of being held back and ashamed. We do not want to be judged, so we tend to remain in that confined space, unable to express ourselves and emotions fully.

Dark Psychology is often discussed in a hushed tone. Much information out there makes the topic overly complicated, full of psychology jargon, that will leave you more perplexed than informed. If you have been looking for a means to detect the people in your life who have more toxic traits, then this is the book for you. This book breaks down the concept of dark psychology and provides you with information that you can use to protect yourself against it. In this book, you will learn:

●  The basic facts about dark psychology.

●  How to detect and separate truth from deception, even when it has been masterfully masked.

●  To decode past traumatic experiences from manipulators.

●  Practical steps to defend yourself and ones from being victims of manipulation.

●  How to overcome past experiences, protect yourself, and move forward.

This book is broken down into three sections:

●  Understanding Dark Psychology: The first section will help you to understand the fundamentals of human behavior. It will take you on an intense adventure, exploring the darker avenues of human thoughts and how they manifest in everyday life to manipulate other people.

●  Identifying and Overcoming Dark Psychology: The second section will help you to confront and overcome people in your life that have displayed these dark psychology traits. We will look at how to have a conversation with these people by reviewing some practical steps you can take to protect yourself and others.

●  Build Your Mental Defenses Against Dark Psychology: Lastly, it will give you an insightful step-by-step guide to building a solid mental defense against further manipulation.

If you, your family, or loved ones, are currently being manipulated with dark psychology, this book will be a helpful resource for you. It will also be beneficial for those recovering from past trauma, helping them understand the psychology of the manipulator and move towards healing.

At the end of this book, I will also list various resources in the United States that you can look to for further support in dealing with your trauma or assisting a loved one.

Why I Wrote This Book?

Growing up with my grandparents in a small village in West Africa, we lived next door to another family of seven, made up of parents, four adolescent boys, and a girl. We described the mother of this family as a ‘sweet mother of the neighborhood’. She always had a smile on her face and a kind word for everyone. She was equally hard-working until the day she died.  Her passing brought sadness to the entire community.

Their mother lived a good life and built a good reputation for their family, and the community held the children in high regard. However, the sons had very little education and decided not to work after her passing. With this idleness, they started engaging in manipulative activities. As a six-year-old boy in the 80’s to ’90s in Africa, I would stay home while my parents go to the farm during planting and harvesting seasons. Every afternoon, the youngest son would come around to hang out with me. Eventually, he started taking me out of my parent's house every other day to the soccer field to watch games. While there, he’d find a target and direct me to steal purses and wallets while he watched from a distance, thereby protecting himself from being caught. I would bring the item to him, and he would congratulate and reward me for a job well done. 

As we grew older, this behavior gradually became a habit, and I began to see people as targets. My parents decided to send me to school in another town. Things got better for me as I started learning that my behavior was not appropriate. My manipulator maintained his family’s reputation for a while, but things changed when he began engaging in significant activities, including manipulating older folks in the community and extorting money. Long story short, he was eventually caught in an armed robbery and killed.

With increased knowledge and social interaction, I realized how much damage this had on my life as a young adult. I could not engage or create friendships due to the fear of the outcome from my experience as a six-year-old boy. We also see this in our everyday lives. We see kids make friends with people who influence them in terrible ways, and despite the solid home influences they have, they make the wrong choices repeatedly. Their parents feel helpless, baffled by the nature of the so-called friends' impact on their kids. We tend to focus our energy more on the terrible outcomes than the patterns that occur before the illicit activity happens. We ignore the small, repeated actions which turn into habits. This explains the increase in victim rates, despite widespread awareness campaigns in our communities.

Over the years, I have developed an interest in psychology. I’ve taken several psychology courses in abnormal and personal psychology. I have also read multiple psychology books, including but not limited to The 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson and others. I’ve conducted a lot of research and looked over the reports of profilers on notorious perpetrators of these behaviors, which has led to me making a remarkable observation.

There was one consistent factor in everything: the perpetrators changed, the technology and the times changed, but the game patterns are always the same. All these patterns are attributed to dark psychology. So, to help you protect yourselves or loved ones and consequently build a solid mental and emotional defense against such influences, this book was born.

So, if you’re ready to get started, flip over to the next page, and let’s dive into it.

Section 1: Understanding Dark Psychology

Chapter 1: What is Dark Psychology?

Dark psychology is an inherently aggressive style of engaging with the social world. It is an intensely intimate method of control predicated on the subconscious of another person.

Most psychological techniques have a dual purpose – someone can use them for both ‘white psychology’ and ‘dark psychology.’ What differs is the intent of the person employing the techniques. Dark psychology is the act of persuasion, manipulation, and deception. All these tactics can significantly harm people and have long-lasting, damaging effects.

Both manipulation and dark persuasion can be seen as partial umbrella terms for dark psychology. However, manipulation is also a tactic of dark persuasion itself and vice versa. How can manipulation and persuasion both contain each other? The answer, of course, is that categorizations are contingent and incomplete things a lot of the time.

There are shortcuts to accessing the subconscious of another person based on the fundamental nature of the human psyche. Some people can be more susceptible to manipulation methods than others. However, we will likely all experience manipulation in some way or another.

It is necessary to identify