George Simon — workshops on manipulators and character disorders
UPDATE Sept 2021: I have come to believe that Jeff Crippen does not practise what he preaches. He vilely persecuted an abuse victim and spiritually abused many other people in the Tillamook congregation. Go here to read the evidence. Jeff has not gone to the people that he spiritually and emotionally abused. He has not apologised to them, let alone asked for their forgiveness.
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Dr George Simon Jr is planning a series of workshops on manipulators and character disorders [Internet Archive link] around the USA and in other countries as well. Click on the link for more information.
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A Cry For Justice 
What kind of therapy will help treat these disorders? My husband has these and we cannot find a psychologist that has been able to help him. What sort of approach / theory does a psychologist need to use? Please help me find someone for him.
Hi, and welcome to the blog. 🙂
So far as I know, and I learned this from Dr George Simon and other reading I have done as an interested lay-person, there is no specific therapy that treats the manipulative / malignant types of character disorders.
You will find it helpful to read more of our articles about George Simon. Here is our George Simon tag.
But I don’t suggest you get your husband to read any of our stuff. He is only likely to twist what he reads and use it against you.
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Hi, Anonymous, thank you for commenting here, and may I extend you a warm welcome. 🙂
If your husband was REALLY serious about wanting to change, he would not be expecting you to do the work of finding a treatment program or therapist that would help him. I encourage you to turn your focus away from trying to find help for your husband, and instead look at our Frequently Asked Questions to see what interests you there.
Don Hennessy ran groups for groups for male intimate abusers, but stopped when he realised they were not doing much good and were dangerous in some cases.
Dr George Simon Jr says that there is no ‘silver bullet’ treatment for character disorders. He says that character disordered people who manipulate others and use covert or overt aggression are extremely resistant to change.
In his article Contrition Revisited, Dr Simon says —
Here is a quote from Dr Simon’s article How to Recognize True (and false) Contrition —
Here are some more links you want to further explore Dr George Simon’s material.
Dr George Simon Jr — his internet writings and his books.
Psychopath, Sociopath — is there a difference?
Contrition, Repentance and Forgiveness
Denial versus Lying