Continuing from my other topic I also am very curious about the specific methods and strategies used by toxic/abusive people. I am curious in particular about those who are not causing inadvertent harm to others but the opposite: Deliberate, pre-planned schemes which are designed with full knowledge of relevant psychological principles and with full intentions to utilize said knowledge to cause maximum effect. I am talking about schemes specifically to cause psychological disaster scenarios through manipulation. Disaster scenarios such as inducing a psychotic episode, suicide, drug overdose, acting upon dark impulses which may have been subtly suggested by the abuser, anything else that can lead to consequences such as prison or committing to mental hospital. End game goal being the victim dying through suicide or violence, ending up in prison or involuntarily committed to a mental hospital either for years or for life. Though I am unsure of what manner of fulfillment this gives to an abuser, if their actions cause another person's suicide/violent death or long term prison sentence. They detect an action potential in a victim that they may under certain conditions cause this scenario and then manipulate them however possible into creating this scenario. Like how some people with mental illness may have a "trigger" the idea is to identify said trigger as well as how to "optimally" create the trigger scenario so as to cause maximum effect.
It is basically bullying but with a studious intensity.
Here's a bit of what sorts of things I am talking about from the wikipedia page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abusive_power_and_control
Quote:
The vulnerabilities of the victim are exploited with those who are particularly vulnerable being most often selected as targets.[3][4][5] Traumatic bonding can occur between the abuser and victim as the result of ongoing cycles of abuse in which the intermittent reinforcement of reward and punishment creates powerful emotional bonds that are resistant to change and a climate of fear.[6] An attempt may be made to normalise, legitimise, rationalise, deny, or minimise the abusive behaviour, or blame the victim for it.[7][8][9]
Isolation, gaslighting, mind games and divide and rule are other strategies that are often used. The victim may be plied with alcohol or drugs to help disorientate them.
Certain personality types feel particularly compelled to control other people
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18 Jan 2018, 1:37 pm
