Contrary to what Bram Stoker wrote, the undead walk the streets during broad daylight. They show up in the morning to roam your office hallways, driven by the insatiable need of making you just one more slave to the undead.

If you have ever found yourself face-to-face with an employee, boss, or consultant who turned out to be a bloodsucker, EMOTIONAL VAMPIRES AT WORK (McGraw-Hill Professional; May, 2013; Paperback, $18.00) is the antidote. Clinical psychologist Dr. Albert Bernstein pinpoints how to identify and categorize the Vampire. He then teaches you to be on the alert for attack signs, how to modify your behavior, step out of your own patterns (vampires can often get confused by the unexpected), and protect yourself from further attempts on your well-being.

If you’re especially vulnerable to Vampires, this will help you identify your own identity type so you don’t get blindsided.

When vampires get promoted to positions of power, they remake organizations in their own image. To survive, everyone has to act like they do. Soon the entire culture begins to resemble a castle in Transylvania.

Learn the fifteen warning signs that tell you to get out before sunset, and the five Classic Vampire types:

· Antisocials, who crave excitement in all its forms, sex, drugs, rock ‘n’roll, larceny, and gambling with other people’s money.

· Histrionics, who believe that what it looks like is more important than what it is.

· Narcissists, who believe that the universe revolves around them.

· Obsessive-Compulsives, who can’t seem to see the forest because of the excessive number of trees.

· Paranoids, who think they’ve found the simple truths that explain everything.

Thoroughly revised and updated in response to thousands of calls and emails Dr Bernstein has received about the book, EMOTIONAL VAMPIRES aims to help you cope effectively with the people in life that confound, confuse and sap every ounce of energy.