Verbal abuse in childhood directly affects children's health. Nevertheless, we're not aware of all of its effects. This is because we sometimes confuse it with the use of bad words. But it goes much further than that. Verbal abuse in...
The causes of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) have to do with deficiencies and excesses during childhood. The child can experience a lack of the different stimuli or the love that he so needed. Or, on other occasions, narcissism starts...
Assertive indifference is a new expression that was first used in the field of relationships. However, little by little, the concept has started to be used in other fields, and has proved to be a useful way of managing...
Recovering from emotional abuse means having to process a traumatic event that has undermined your confidence. To do this, you have to avoid blaming yourself. The person who trusts and gives everything to their relationship is never in the wrong....
Attachment is the affective bond that develops primarily out of a search for safety and well-being. In some cases, the primary caregiver represents both a source of danger and protection for the child. This is how disorganized attachment develops. For...
In 2002, Lundy Bancroft wrote one of the most profound books ever written about the mentality of psychological and emotional abusers. His work was backed by clinical evidence and research. In the book, he defines different types of emotionally violent people....
It is increasingly common for feminism to feature in the media these days. It is also becoming more common to specifically include social groups that, until not so long ago, had been marginalized. Orange is The New Black is...
Considerable effort has been made to come up with the psychological profile of an abuser. But research still hasn't produced reliable empirical data. That said, evidence does exist that there are traits common in all abusers. Traditionally, boys and girls...
A few years ago, I had the chance to live with people who were a lot younger than me. If I hadn't made the decision to go back to school, I might have never met them. Their ages were...
The different forms of child abuse seem almost imperceptible sometimes. They have even been accepted as a natural part of a little one's education on occasions. Some have seen it as necessary and have found it impossible to use...
