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Innovative Strategies for Unlocking Difficult Children: Attention Seekers, Manipulative Students, Apathetic Students, Hostile Students. YouthLight. ISBN 978-1-889636-08-5. McMillan DL (2008). But He Says He Loves Me: How to Avoid Being Trapped in a Manipulative Relationship. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74175-196-3. Sasson JE (2002).
Children of a narcissistic parent may not be supportive of others in the home. Observing the parent's behavior, the child learns that manipulation and guilt are effective strategies for getting what they want. The child may also develop a false self and use aggression and intimidation to get their way. Or instead, the child may invest in ...
Children, too, will employ special pleading and emotional blackmail to promote their own interests, and self-development, within the family system. [ 5 ] Emotional blackmailers use fear, obligation and guilt in their relationships, ensuring that others feel afraid to cross them, obligated to give them their way and swamped by guilt if they resist.
Controlling behavior in relationships are behaviors exhibited by an individual who seeks to gain and maintain control over another person. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Abusers may utilize tactics such as intimidation or coercion , and may seek personal gain, personal gratification , and the enjoyment of exercising power and control. [ 4 ]
Machiavellianism is one of the traits in the dark triad model, along with psychopathy and narcissism. In the field of personality psychology, Machiavellianism (sometimes abbreviated as MACH) is the name of a personality trait construct characterized by interpersonal manipulation, indifference to morality, lack of empathy, and a calculated focus on self-interest.
Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics. By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at another's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive.
The distinction between "socialized" and "undersocialized" children was the most pertinent in distinguishing between psychopathic-like youths. According to these definitions, "undersocialized" children exhibited characteristic behaviors of psychopathy, including: lack of empathy, lack of affection, and inappropriate social relationships (DSM III).
Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or mental abuse or psychological violence or non-physical abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, clinical depression or post-traumatic stress disorder amongst other psychological problems.