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psychological abuse
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psychological abuse
Emotional abuse, mental abuse A form of mistreatment in which there is intent to cause mental or emotional pain or injury; PA includes verbal aggression, statements intended to humiliate or infantilize, insults, threats of abandonment or institutionalization; PA results in stress, social withdrawal, long-term or recalcitrant depression, anxiety


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To make matters worse, Anna and her brother have an emotionally abusive father, a weak and distant mother, and this problem has driven a wedge into their relationship even before the trauma of the accident.
According to this scenario, (1) the man experiences internal tension, the fearful woman tries to accommodate his increasingly controlling and emotionally abusive behaviors, but she is unable to prevent (2) the inevitable explosion of violence.
4) Richard Griffiths as Harry Potter's emotionally abusive Uncle Vernon.
 
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