How toxic people wage emotional warfare on others | Bill Eddy

Give yourself the gift of knowledge! Subscribe to Big Think Edge: http://bit.ly/bigthinkedge Expect emotional warfare where there are high-conflict people. - High-conflict emotional warfare exists everywhere there are high-conflict people. - Their strategy is usually to seduce someone get other people to agree with them on attacking someone else. In mental health terms, this is called "splitting," where you split people into all good and all bad. Splitting is linked to borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. - High-conflict people dominate by sowing division, at all levels of society — from school boards to state governments. Bill Eddy is the co-founder and president of the High Conflict Institute, a company devoted to helping individuals and organizations deal with high-conflict people. Eddy is a Certified Family Law Specialist and Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. He is also a Licensed Clinical Social worker with twelve years' experience providing therapy to children, adults, couples and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. His latest book is "Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths―and How We Can Stop" (https://amzn.to/2vpWKUH) If you're interested in licensing this or any other Big Think clip for commercial or private use, contact our licensing partner Executive Interviews: http://bit.ly/2QU1U5i Read more at BigThink.com: http://bit.ly/2MBDu1X Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: http://bit.ly/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink