Updated January 25, 2021
I present to you the ultimate list of best, most-effective narcissistic abuse recovery books out there, according to our surveys of more than 133,000 survivors of narcissistic abuse.
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Top 10 Books on Narcissistic Abuse
True Narcissistic Abuse Survivor Stories (Anthologies)
Collections of Stories Written and Compiled by Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse
- The Evolution of Echo: Raising Our Voices: Stories of Surviving Narcissistic Abuse (Kindle)
- The Evolution of Echo: Raising Our Voices: Stories of Surviving Narcissistic Abuse (Paperback)
- I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse: A Collection of Essays on Malignant Narcissism and Recovery from Emotional Abuse
Books on Going No Contact with a Narcissist
- Navigating No-Contact with a Narcissist: A Recovery Roadmap for Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse
- Getting Free
- The Christian’s Guide to No Contact: How to End Your Relationships With Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Abusive Family and Friends, and Still be a Good Christian
- How To Do No Contact Like A Boss!: The Woman’s Guide to Implementing No Contact and Detaching from Toxic Relationships
- Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself
Books on Narcissistic Mothers
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
- Mothers Who Can’t Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
- Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
- You’re Not Crazy – It’s Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers (Daughters Of Narcissistic Mothers Book 1)
- Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists: Essays on The Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery
- Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration
- The Narcissistic Family
More Books on Narcissistic Mothers
Books to Help Identify a Narcissist
Self-Care for Survivors
Books on Leaving a Narcissist
- Take Back Your Life: 103 Highly-Effective Strategies to Snuff Out a Narcissist’s Gaslighting and Enjoy the Happy Life You Really Deserve (Detoxifying Your Life)
- When to Walk Away: Finding Freedom from Toxic People
- When to Walk Away Study Guide
- Getting Free
- Out of the Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
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Books on Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
- Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: The Ultimate Toxic Relationship Survival Guide for Victims and Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse
- Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse
- Out of the Fog: Moving from Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
- Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse
- You Can Heal Your Life
- Taking the Lead
- Broken Open: How Difficult Times Help Us Grow
- The Rest is Still Unwritten
- Codependent No More
- Exorcism: Purging the Narcissist From Your Heart and Soul
- Take Back Your Life
- The courage to heal
- Victory Over Verbal Abuse
- Your Love is My Drug: How to Shut Down a Narcissist, Detoxify Your Relationships & Live the Awesome Life You Really Deserve, Starting Right Now
- Charm to Harm And Everything Else in Between With a Narcissist
- The Emotionally Destructive Relationship
Books on Complex PTSD and Trauma Healing
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Workbook)
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
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Books on Psychopaths and Sociopaths
- Psychopath Free
- Women who love psychopaths
- Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
- The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
- The Sociopath Next Door
- Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator
Books for Adult Children of Narcissists
- Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists: Essays on The Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery
- The Narcissistic Family
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
- Mothers Who Can’t Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
- Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
- You’re Not Crazy – It’s Your Mother: Understanding and Healing for Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers (Daughters Of Narcissistic Mothers Book 1)
- Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration
Help for Adult Children of Narcissists
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What is Narcissistic Abuse?
Not all abuse involves narcissists, but in a large percentage of abuse cases, a narcissist is involved. Narcissists of the toxic nature are those who have little to no empathy for the people around them and who act from that perspective. That is: they don’t care how you or anyone else feels, and you can tell because of the way they treat the people around them. Narcissistic abuse involves subtle manipulation, pervasive control tactics, gaslighting, and emotional and psychological abuse. Many narcissistic abusers might be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder – if they actually go to a psychologist for diagnosis, but this rarely happens as narcissists don’t feel that there’s anything with them. They may be overtly narcissistic, or they may be more of a covert narcissist. In either case, anyone in a close relationship with one of these toxic people will be used as a form of narcissistic supply and not treated like an actual person. Sadly, even the most intelligent and educated people can be manipulated and abused by a narcissist.
Angela Atkinson is a certified trauma counselor and the author of more than 20 books on narcissism, narcissistic abuse recovery, and related topics. A recognized expert on narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder who has studied and written extensively on narcissistic personality disorder and narcissistic abuse in toxic relationships since 2006, she has a popular narcissistic abuse recovery YouTube channel. Atkinson was inspired to begin her work as a result of having survived toxic relationships of her own.
Atkinson offers trauma-informed narcissistic abuse recovery coaching and has certifications in trauma counseling, life coaching, level 2 therapeutic model, CBT coaching, integrative wellness coaching, and NLP. She is a certified trauma support coach and certified family trauma professional. She also has a professional PTSD counseling certification. Her mission is to help those who have experienced the emotional and mental devastation that comes with narcissistic abuse in these incredibly toxic relationships to (re)discover their true selves, stop the gaslighting and manipulation, and move forward into their genuine desires – into a life that is exactly what they choose for themselves.
Along with her solution-focused life coaching experience, Atkinson’s previous career in journalism and research helps her to offer both accurate and understandable information for survivors of abuse in a simple-to-understand way that helps to increase awareness in the narcissistic abuse recovery community. Atkinson founded QueenBeeing.com Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Support, the SPANily Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Support Groups and the Life Makeover Academy.
She offers individual and group coaching for victims and survivors of narcissistic abuse here at QueenBeeing.com and at NarcissisticAbuseRecovery.Online.
