Dark Psychology Secrets: The Beginner’s Guide to Learn Covert Emotional Manipulation, NLP, Mind Control Techniques & Brainwashing. Discover the Art of Reading People and Influence Human Behavior Paperback – 10 April 2021

I suspect it was produced my chatgpt. The content itself is poor: a simple summary of different concepts (narcissism, psychopathy etc). But towards the middle it even becomes non sensical, with entire paragraphs that are a mess (poorly translated from Chinese or something like that). Here is a copy paste: "King Henry, the 8th of England, is a particularly famous example of a mighty seducer." This is already odd, but then the Author carries on saying that this king "was decapitated several times by his spouses"... I asked for a refund.

I bought this book as an interesting aspect of psychology that sounded from the advertising and cover that it held some new interesting insights into the darker uses of psychology. What I found instead was a poorly written text-lifted jumbled rubbish of a book. It is also a soft sell for NLP a much discredited form of therapy that has long gone from favour. Most of the so called secrets are regular psychology you can find in any text book, but here are all over the place and clearly out of context. The book itself has many grammatical errors (obviously never edited properly), paragraphs repeated over a few pages later, double line text mistakes and much more. Being fair I did struggle to the end to read the whole book, but what a waste of time. Interestingly there is no author background, no index, only a bibliography that seems to be from popular self help rather than anything scientific. Nothing new, nothing surprising, except it got published.

This book is useless. It just says the different types of lies people use. If you are a 10 year old you might find some use but if you have lived past 10 you probaby have met everyone this book talks about. Do not buy it