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It's going on our
survey about mental control and the activity of sects that devote to
this kind or practices. In this issue we host the contribution of two
CeSAP's researchers- that is the Study Centre on Psychological Abuses
- and an interview of Luisa Miccoli to a victim of moral subjugation
that saved by a miracle from the annihilation and is still upset by
the experiences she lived.As the deepening of
these problems goes on, it is ever more evident the range these phenomena
reach in our country.
Definition
There are words, actions,
behaviours, interactions no law punishes, but that may result heavily
injurious for persons. This kind of violence, defined as psychological,
concerns several situations: the continuous provocation, the offence,
the disrespect, the derision, the emotional blackmail, the silence,
the deprivation of freedom, the mendacity, the betrayal of the reposed
trust are only some of the forms the psychological violence may shape
into.
To talk about psychological
abuse it is required that one or more of these aspects are enough pervasive.
Actuation
range of the psychological violence
The psychological kind
violence manifests in several places, home, work and society, and so
it is featured by a kind of aggressive relationship that can run along
with a situation of physical or sexual ill-treatment, and that is featured
by a especially threatening relationship approach.
The aspect that distinguishes
such situations from others that on the other side could be defined
the same way, is represented by the strongly violently intrusive behaviour
put in act by the aggressor against the attacked person, that may be
a weak partner or more often a son, or a pupil, a colleague...
The psychological violence
put in act in families is the most acknowledged by the juridical viewpoint.
Early sentences underlined
the characteristic of the home psychological violence and its effects
on relationships.
A sentence by the Court
of Appeal at Turin, I Civil Section, (RG. 895/99), for example attributed
the failure of a marriage to the psychological violence the husband
practiced over his wife:
"Indeed it emerged
that the behaviour hold by S. produced for all the relationship duration,
offence to the dignity of the other partner, as regard to the outward
aspect by which it was cultivated and the range it was expressed, and
it was objectively such to cause pains and upheaval, injury to the image
and prejudicial offences to the personality of the partner...".
The sentences denominated
such methods of attack against the personal estimation using the term
'mobbing', charging the husband the responsibility for divorce.
The Sixth Crime Section
of the Court of Cassation (3750/99) supported that the man that makes
life impossible for the ex-wife, subjecting her to any kind of annoyance
and vexation, is punishable with detention, for he does no perform the
reciprocal respect duties he must perform even if divorced, not standing
out the fact the cohabitation is over. By this assertion the court rejected
the appeal of a divorced man that had tormented his ex-wife with any
kind of annoyance (puncturing tyres, menaces) and for that he was condemned
by the Court of Appeal of Venice for the crime of ill-treatment in family.
So continuative vexations, menaces, injuries, damns etc. inside a relationship
are signals of psychological abuse.
The psychological violence
is practiced at work too.
Mobbing (from To mob
= to assault tumultuously) is indeed a clear form of psychological violence,
defined also as psychological terror, practices at job by repeated attacks
by colleagues or bosses. The mobbing victim, often unaware, enters a
relationship vicious circle that makes him a victim of a light and diabolic
attack by a torturer. But attacks are not always striking and the victim
is not able to identify clearly what is happening to him: wickedness,
gospels...are the rule of the game and further they are minimized by
relatives and friends to whom are told. This way the individual starts
feeling a sense of inadequacy, of guilt since he does not succeed in
being better and so impregnable. Psychosomatic disturbs and damages
to the self-estimation are unavoidable.
One of the most invasive
forms of psychological abuse is the mental control or destructive persuasion
the torturer puts in act against the designed victim. Persuasion, or
mental control, represents the effort to lead a person to a wanted direction,
with means different from the force. The destructive persuasion is prepared
according to an exact and hidden program, by the means of the strategic
controls of the needs of the individual
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