by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger07.11.2010
Emotional Abuse
If you have experienced emotional abuse then undoubtedly you are familiar with the struggles associated with it: feelings of powerlessness, hurt, fear, anger and rage. These feelings are part of the cycle of abuse. Interestingly abusers often experience these emotions, generally dealing with a history of abuse. They learned from their own families of origin [...]
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by Dr. Randy Kamen Gredinger07.02.2010
Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse is behavior that controls and manipulates another person through fear, humiliation, intimidation, guilt and coercion. The victim’s feelings, needs, thoughts and desires are trivialized and made to seem inconsequential in comparison to the needs of the abuser. Ellen’s husband, Mike, yelled obscenities at her after she forgot to pick up his dry cleaning. [...]
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