BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Emotional rape can be defined as: Emotional abuse characterized by patterned and purposeful behavior which purpose is to undermine and control the victim. It is an attack on the victim's personality rather than their body. In sexual rape, the term "without consent" refer to the victim having not agreed to sex. Emotional rape is the abuse of someone's higher emotions -love, self-respect, compassion, admiration - without consent. That is, the 'rapist' doesn't tell the truth to the victim and coerces them into sharing these emotions with them while having a covert agenda. (i.e. - sex, money, etc) Emotional rape is the exploitation of a person's higher emotions through manipulation and/or deception. In her true story, two people began a romantic journey and ended up completely estranged because of his need to use her emotions to get what he wants. For this reason, it is important that people become more educated about issues of psychological and emo...

Para-moralisms: The conviction that moral values exist and that some actions violate moral rules is so common and ancient a phenomenon that it seems to have some substratum at man's instinctive endowment level (although it is certainly not totally adequate for moral truth), and that it does not only represent centuries' worth of experience, culture, religion, and socialization. ...Any act can thus be proved to be immoral or morally proper by means of such para-moralisms through active suggestion, and people whose minds will succumb to such reasoning can always be found. In searching for an example of an evil act whose negative value would not elicit doubt in any social situation, ethics scholars frequently mention child abuse. However, psychologists often meet with para-moral affirmations of such behavior in their practice, such as in a family with the prefrontal field damage in the eldest sister. Her younger brothers emphatically insisted that their sister's sadistic tre...

When I do Domestic Violence counseling I concentrate on the non-physical aspects. The verbal, emotional, financial & spiritual abuse that's done. Majority of the time its covert and chips away at you little by little. I have had it done to me.8  years ago someone I thought was a friend and thought I could trust used it on me . It took a long time to completely untangle the mental pretzel I'd become, as well as professional help. I am still dealing with permanent PTSD and some of the aftermath problems have completely shut down parts of myself that I know are gone forever. Any psychology professional will tell you - you don't just "move on" or "get over it." No one is immune from this. No one. You are done in before you even know it. "Moral principles are a person’s sense of right and wrong. The women we spoke to had very high moral principles and an internal moral compass of right and wrong. Their moral sense and its relationship...

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ARE THE NEOCONS TRYING TO PUT US IN A TRANCE ? Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence ("Thought Reform" throughout this article can be read as synonymous with "Brainwashing" & "Coercive Persuasion". For further information read up on Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Sales Techniques and Cognitive Dissonance) Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. Recently, cult apologists have attempted to create the impression that the concept of thought reform has been rejected by the scientific community. This is untrue. As recently as May of this year, the new Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association cites thought reform as a contributing factor to "Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified" (a diagnosis frequently given to former cult members). Thought reform (notes 1,2,3 below) and its synonyms brainwashing and coercive persuasion (4.5) were also noted in DSM-III (1...