Langone, Michael, Ph.D.: "Psychological Abuse"

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This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1992, Volume 9, Number 2, pages 206-218. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.

Psychological Abuse

Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.

Abstract

Psychological abuse refers to situations in which techniques of persuasion and control are used to exploit and/or otherwise mistreat people. Its opposite, respect, has four aspects: the honoring of mind, autonomy, identity, and dignity (MAID). At heart, psychological abuse and respect are ethical concepts. In treating victims of psychological abuse, it is important to address the ethical dimension, for recognizing that they have been wronged is crucial to victims' recovery of mind, autonomy, identity, and dignity. Affirmation of the ethical dimension in individual cases of abuse also contributes to a strengthening of the unwritten ethical rules that undergird pluralistic societies.

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