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Maureen Duffy is a psychotherapist and consultant specializing in workplace relationships and organizational health.
Known for: Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying
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Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying
Workplace abuse is often dismissed as “just office politics,” but Maureen Duffy and Len Sperry show that organized hostility at work can be psychologically devastating, professionally destructive, and physically harmful. Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying explains what happens when a person becomes the target of systematic exclusion, humiliation, rumor-spreading, or coordinated attacks designed to push them out. Rather than treating these experiences as isolated conflicts, the book frames mobbing as a serious organizational and mental health issue. What makes this guide especially valuable is its dual focus: it helps readers understand the larger workplace dynamics behind mobbing, and it offers a practical recovery path for those who have already been harmed. Duffy and Sperry combine clinical insight, organizational knowledge, and compassion for targets who often feel confused, ashamed, and alone. They clarify how mobbing differs from ordinary conflict, why institutions often fail to stop it, and what people can do to protect their identity, health, and future. For anyone recovering from workplace bullying—or trying to support someone who is—this book provides language, validation, and a roadmap forward.
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Mobbing Is More Than Conflict
One of the most dangerous myths about workplace aggression is that it is simply a personality clash. Duffy and Sperry argue that mobbing is fundamentally different from ordinary disagreement because it is systematic, repeated, and socially amplified. In a normal conflict, two people may disagree ove...
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Scapegoating Fuels Group Aggression
Groups often bond not only through shared purpose, but through shared blame. A central insight in the book is that mobbing frequently operates as a form of scapegoating: an organization under stress unconsciously or deliberately channels anxiety, frustration, or dysfunction onto one person. The targ...
From Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying
Targets Often Share Distinct Vulnerabilities
It is tempting to believe that workplace mobbing only happens to weak employees, but the book challenges that assumption directly. In many cases, targets are chosen not because they are incapable, but because they stand out. They may be highly competent, ethically consistent, innovative, or unwillin...
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The Harm Is Deeply Personal
Workplace mobbing does not end when the workday ends. One of the book’s most powerful contributions is its recognition that prolonged workplace aggression can affect the whole person: mind, body, identity, relationships, and sense of safety. Targets often experience anxiety, insomnia, depression, co...
From Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying
Institutions Often Enable The Abuse
A painful truth in workplace mobbing is that organizational systems frequently fail the very people they are supposed to protect. Duffy and Sperry explain that mobbing thrives not only because aggressors act, but because institutions rationalize, ignore, or reward the behavior. Leaders may avoid con...
From Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying
Documentation Restores Clarity And Agency
When mobbing intensifies, confusion becomes one of the target’s biggest obstacles. Gaslighting, rumors, selective criticism, and shifting expectations can make people doubt their memory and judgment. Duffy and Sperry highlight documentation as both a practical and psychological tool. Keeping a clear...
From Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying
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Maureen Duffy is a psychotherapist and consultant specializing in workplace relationships and organizational health.
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