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Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse is a systematic pattern of behavior used by one person to exert control and dominance over another person. A cornerstone of emotional abuse is neglect. However, it is also characterized by willfully inflicting psychological pain, distress, humiliation, and degradation on another.
Emotional abuse is accomplished by interpersonal manipulation. Some more specific examples of emotional abuse are verbal assaults, isolation, gaslighting, monitoring, control, surveillance, intimidation, threats as well as withholding affection and emotional support.
It’s important to recognize that emotional abuse can occur in a wide range of relationship configurations, i.e. intimate partnerships, family relationships, and other social contexts. Ultimately, it exploits imbalances of power in within interpersonal dynamics.
In all of these contexts, it is a form of abuse that has the capacity to erode a person’s sense of self which can cause profound psychological trauma. This can lead to adverse physical- and mental health outcomes, including anxiety disorders, depression, and post-traumatic stress.
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