Game Over
Uncovering the Secrets of Unhealthy Relationship Behaviours & ManipulationBy Julia SummersRecorded TrackLength8h 53m
About this audiobook
Sometimes something just doesn't feel right in a relationship and it's hard to put your finger on it. You may replay conversations, wondering, "Am I overreacting?" "Am I too sensitive?" "Maybe it's me." You may even wonder whether someone is being manipulative, whether it's abuse, or whether you're dealing with a narcissist.
I'm Julia Summers, a counsellor and clinical supervisor, I've spent years helping people make sense of unhealthy and abusive relationships. Game Over is the book I wished I could have given my clients.
Drawing on psychological research and real-life examples, Game Over explores more than 60 tactics and techniques people use to gain power and control, including gaslighting, love bombing, coercive control, guilt and blame. It explains how these behaviours work, why they leave us feeling confused and stuck, and how to recognise the patterns, protect yourself and trust your own judgement again. Once you can see the patterns, it's a lot easier to say Game Over.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length8 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Game Over: Uncovering the Secrets of Unhealthy Relationship Behaviours and Manipulation.
2Written by Julia Summers and narrated using Julia Summers digital voice.
3Disclaimer
4Dedication
5Part 1 Introduction
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6Introduction
7Safety First: Important, Please Read
8Language Matters
9Part 2 – Communication and Power in Relationships
10Healthy and Unhealthy Communication
11How Power Becomes Control
12PART 3 - Why Some People Use Manipulation
13Connection as Performance
14What They Want: Supply and Entitlement
15Do They Know What They’re Doing? Intent, Denial and Payoff
16The Trap of Labels and Diagnosis
17When Does It Become Abuse?
18When Things Start to Change
19PART 4 – Uncovering the Playbook AKA The Games
20The Manipulation Playbook, GAME and the Core Concepts
21PART 5 – The Playbook Tactics
22Abandonment and Insecurity Triggering
23Bait and Switch
24Blackmail
25Blame Shifting
26Blindsiding
27Boundary Pushing and Violations
28Contempt
29Conversation Hijacking, Deflection and Derailment
30Countering
31Criticism
32DARVO
33Defensiveness
34Degrading and Discrediting
35Devaluing
36Digital Manipulation and Control
37Discard
38Dismissiveness
39Double Binds
40Engineered Connection and Entrainment
41Enmeshment
42Fake Apology
43False Accusations and Jealousy
44False and Selective Empathy
45Financial Abuse
46Forced Dependency and Entrapment
47Future Faking
48Future Hooking
49The Game of Incompetence
50Gaslighting
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