Who's behind this

Anti Toxic People is an independent project, not a licensed clinical practice, a law firm, or a funded research institution. It exists because toxic people show up everywhere in life, at work, in families, in friendships, and yet nowhere in school or in any formal education are we ever taught how to recognize them, protect ourselves, or protect the people we love. Most of us go through it uninformed and defenseless. People like this often show little real empathy, and in recent years morality has been flattened into just another line item, everything measured in profit and loss, until the shame and honor that used to hold this kind of behavior in check have quietly worn away. Today, whatever can be justified tends to become the accepted norm. Changing that starts with protecting ourselves, learning to name what we're dealing with, and removing these people from our organizations, together rather than alone.

Founder

The Field Guide's patterns are researched and named by founder Önder Mutluer, a marketing professional based in Munich with 15+ years of experience across e-commerce, brand strategy, and performance marketing. This site isn't the output of a clinical practice or a funded research institution: it comes from years of watching the same toxic patterns repeat across different workplaces and teams, deciding they deserved names people could actually use, and doing the reading to back every one of them up with real sources rather than just an opinion.

How this site handles evidence

Every entry in the Field Guide is labeled by evidence type, clinical construct, academic research concept, or descriptive term, and every non-obvious claim is sourced to a named study, book, or legal case you can check yourself. Where this site coins its own descriptive term for a pattern that doesn't yet have one in the literature, that's stated plainly rather than dressed up as established research. Personal authority is never the basis for a claim here; the citation is.

Get in touch

This project doesn't have a support team, just one person doing the research and trying to keep it honest. If you're a clinician, researcher, or HR practitioner and you spot something that should be corrected or sourced more strongly, that feedback matters and shapes future updates to the Field Guide.