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Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder Paperback – June 1, 2011
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Protect Yourself from Manipulation, False Accusations, and Abuse
Divorce is difficult under the best of circumstances. When your spouse has borderline personality disorder (BPD), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), or is manipulative, divorcing can be especially complicated. While people with these tendencies may initially appear convincing and even charming to lawyers and judges, you know better―many of these “persuasive blamers” leverage false accusations, attempt to manipulate others, launch verbal and physical attacks, and do everything they can to get their way.
Splitting is your legal and psychological guide to safely navigating a high-conflict divorce from an unpredictable spouse. Written by Bill Eddy, a family lawyer, therapist, and divorce mediator, and Randi Kreger, coauthor of the BPD classic Stop Walking on Eggshells, this book includes all of the critical information you need to work through the process of divorce in an emotionally balanced, productive way.
Turn to this guide to help you:
- Predict what your spouse may do or say in court
- Take control of your case with assertiveness and strategic thinking
- Choose a lawyer who understands your case
- Learn how e-mails and social networking can be used against you
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNew Harbinger Publications
- Publication dateJune 1, 2011
- Dimensions5.98 x 0.71 x 8.9 inches
- ISBN-101608820254
- ISBN-13978-1608820252
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From the Book: A Quick Start Guide
The more prepared you are, the less likely you will be to have a high-conflict divorce. Take a look at these tips for protecting yourself and your children during a difficult or hostile divorce. While they may not fully protect you, the sooner you take action on them, the better off you will be. You can find out even more survival tips by reading Splitting.
From the Book: Does this sound like your partner?
During a divorce, some partners with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) or borderline personality disorder (BPD) may feel justified in treating you in one or more of these extreme ways.
Editorial Reviews
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“Splitting provides concise, clear, and invaluable advice for strategically navigating a divorce from someone who has narcissistic or borderline personality disorder. Following the suggestions laid out in this book will greatly increase the readers’ odds of having a successful marital dissolution under these difficult circumstances.”
—Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW, founder and executive director of the Transition Institute of Marin and author of Contemplating Divorce and Stronger Day by Day
From the Publisher
Splitting is an essential legal and psychological guide for anyone divorcing a "persuasive blamer": someone who suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD) or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
About the Author
Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD, has been a family lawyer for over eighteen years and a therapist for over twelve years. He is senior family mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego, CA, and president of the High Conflict Institute based in Scottsdale, AZ. He is a faculty member at Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Judicial College and has provided seminars to judges, lawyers, counselors, and others on the subject of managing high-conflict personalities in legal disputes.
Randi Kreger owns and maintains www.bpdcentral.com, one of the largest and most popular websites about borderline personality disorder (BPD). With nearly twenty thousand active members, her website’s online community Welcome to Oz offers online support to friends and family members of those with BPD. Kreger was instrumental in the formation of the Personality Disorders Awareness Network (PDAN), a not-for-profit organization, and speaks at BPD workshops internationally. She is coauthor of Stop Walking on Eggshells and The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook and author of The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder. She lives in Milwaukee, WI.
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- Publisher : New Harbinger Publications; 1st edition (June 1, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1608820254
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608820252
- Item Weight : 14.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.71 x 8.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #352,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #150 in Popular Psychology Mental Illness Books
- #195 in Walking (Books)
- #417 in Mood Disorders (Books)
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About the author

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute in San Diego, California. He pioneered the High Conflict Personality Theory (HCP) and has become an expert on managing disputes involving people with high conflict personalities. He was the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center for 15 years, a Certified Family Law Specialist lawyer representing clients in family court for 15 years, and a licensed clinical social worker therapist with twelve years’ experience.
He serves on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law inCalifornia and is a Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia. He has been a speaker and trainer in over 30 U.S. states and 10 countries.
He is the author or co-author of twenty books and has a popular blog on the Psychology Today website with over 4.0 million views.
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Then suddenly divorce comes into the picture, and you have to make decisions for yourself and your protection. My divorce was one of the toughest fights I ever have done, and divorcing an abusive narcissist borderline definitely added to how difficult it was. But this book helped me think clearly, made me not feel as alone as I thought I was, and taught me how to approach almost every situation when dealing with a narcissist/borderline in divorce.
I was very thankful for this book, and very thankful for my attorney who I was able to communicate with clearly when it came to my fears of my very sick ex-wife and her lies. My attorney and this book hand-in-hand helped me to survive and practically win the financial part of my divorce. The emotional toll was difficult, and to some extent I am still dealing with it since the divorce was finalized in the spring of 2018, but that is a work in progress.
Highly advised to those who are divorcing a narcissist borderline, be it male or female. Their behaviors and psychology are text book, but with this book you will succeed.
I have PTSD from 12 years of a rollercoaster of physical and emotional abuse, from conning and manipulation when I go to leave that things will change, to completely being ignored to being put down, subjected to random blaming, nastiness & after a few years of this madness, ramped up taunting as he got to know my "pressure points", deliberately designed to create a reaction to fight back, and sure enough, I have started to fight back in every way sometimes, and unfortunately, he exploits when I fight back to point the finger of blame and switch the diagnosis to me. I love him and am not ready to leave yet because at times he shows true remorse and HAS sought help, but in the meantime for healing and to keep me safe, I am trying to find books to teach me how to not react so I was pen to this book, but it is garbage. Here's why....
Too many of the examples are describing the woman as the guilty party, and it overall reads like a handbook to help abusive men and their attorneys in the process of divorce make a case against the woman victim, lots of handy examples that are not even plausible in a lot of cases, or could really be explained as PTSD reactions if anyone actually cared about her well being, instead of pandering to the abuser, helping them to convincingly the blame and avoid accountability completely.
The whole idea of "splitting" (which I thought was just a term to help me prepare to leave my abuser) is not that at all, it is more of a deliberately confusing & non-productive "all or nothing" personality disorder which makes no allowance for the victim to complain about being abused! Stay away from this book, especially if you still live with your abuser. All it will do is give them crazy-making quotes to transfer the blame for the tension in the relationship to you! The only thing that has helped is author Lundy Bancroft, and videos from Dr. Ramani.
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There's a 2nd edition on the way in 2021 so do check for that before purchasing this one.








