This book is about learning how to stand up to toxic people if life has brought you into contact with them without giving you an immediate escape. People, communication with which takes away all your strength and energy, are often called psycho-vampires. The book will introduce you to the variety of their types. You will find out what kind of people attract this or that type of "victims", what are the mechanisms of their influence and what are the ways to counteract. The authors, psychiatrist and psychologist Hamid Pezeshkian and journalist and business coach Connie Voigt, talk about it in simple terms, give examples from life and their own practice.