I chewed through it fairly quickly. I don't remember feeling that it was overly blame-y in any fashion. He pointed out that if you are alive to read his words, you have kept yourself alive, and every new scrap of information will help you do an even better job of this.

I should say that I had a relationship with a psychopath, and it took me years to get out of it. YMMV for sensitivity to the author's phrasing. I'd recommend checking it out of the library and reading every other chapter first, perhaps. Don't deprive yourself of good info because the man wasn't PC enough for some people at one point.

He was a victim of horrible domestic unrest, BTW. The chapter on assault might be triggery for survivors, so go in prepared.