{"product_id":"dark-contracts-breaking-the-nex-of-narcissistic-and-psychopathic-control-paperback","title":"Dark Contracts Breaking the Nex of Narcissistic and Psychopathic Control - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeirdre J. Rolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLee Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Designed by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark Contracts: Breaking the Nex of Narcissistic and Psychopathic Control is a clinically informed and psychologically incisive guide for those impacted by individuals with Dark Triad traits: narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. For those currently enmeshed, recently disengaged, navigating the aftermath, or working in therapeutic settings, this book offers a penetrating look at the unconscious contracts that bind victims to disordered personalities. It explores how trauma, attachment, and emotional manipulation form a \"Nex\". A covert system of control that distorts reality and erodes the self. Written by Deirdre Rolfe, a trauma specialist and psychotherapist with 30 years of clinical experience and a focused expertise in personality disorders, this book brings together theory, lived insight, and practical tools to help readers reclaim autonomy, restore clarity, and sever ties that were never truly consensual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome bonds aren't relationships. They're psychological contracts, unspoken, coercive, and invisible to the outside world. Dark Contracts is Part One of a complete therapeutic system designed to illuminate, deconstruct, and ultimately heal the invisible damage caused by narcissistic, psychopathic, and coercively controlling personalities . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces the concept of the Nex as a parasitic psychological tether formed through gaslighting, trauma bonding, emotional deprivation, and the systematic dismantling of a survivor's truth. These contracts are not chosen; they are conditioned, and this book shows you how and is the map toward navigating your way out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending clinical frameworks, attachment science, psycholinguistics, and trauma-informed neurobiology, Dark Contracts provides a foundation of understanding for survivors and clinicians alike. It decodes the behaviors of Dark Triad personalities, explains the mechanisms of psychological entrapment, and offers a path back to sovereignty through truth, language, and embodied awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the education and foundation of a larger healing model: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two, The TR6 Model (forthcoming), maps the progressive emotional shadows and survival states trauma survivors often get stuck in such as rumination, re-injury, and rage and offers a structured therapeutic framework to dig deeper for valuable shadow work in order to process and climb out of them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three, TraumaCode, is a 96-card healing deck with guidebook and online training program designed for both personal use and practitioner integration. It offers a daily reflective and ritual-based practice that deepens healing through metaphor, symbolism, rituals, somatic awareness, narrative repair and evidence-based practices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e Together, these three works form a complete therapeutic system for survivors ready to heal, for professionals ready to support them, and for anyone seeking to name, unbind, and transform their trauma into power for a life of meaning, purpose, on your terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47506906185906,"sku":"9780645732535","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/p2ShWUph5A9780645732535.webp?v=1779566555","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/dark-contracts-breaking-the-nex-of-narcissistic-and-psychopathic-control-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}