It provides 201 ways to identify toxic personalities and the means to deal with those people who drive everyone around them crazy by demanding much, giving little, and treating others shabbily. The author endeavors to help readers learn how to expand their consciousness, heighten their awareness, and increase their self worth by laying out minimum standards for acceptable behavior. She shows one how to quit being a victim in a relationship by giving up false beliefs like " when those that we love hurt us, it is our fault, or for our own good."
This book urges one to over-come the need to remain enmeshed with those whose souls are so closed off they are not aware that they are dead to the feelings of others