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My name is Sam Vaknin. In 1995, I coined the phrase narcissistic abuse, and I felt the need to coin a new phrase because I wanted to describe a subtype of abusive behavior that was pernicious, nefarious, all pervasive across multiple areas of life and involved a plethora of behaviors and manipulative or coercive techniques. Narcissistic abuse was not like all other types of abuse. It differed from other types of abuse in its range, in its sophistication, in its duration, in its versatility, express and premeditated intention to negate and to vitiate the victim's personal autonomy, agency, self-efficacy, and ultimately, well-being. And it was the only type of abuse that could be practiced either surreptitiously or overtly, openly.
So very often narcissistic abuse masquerades in a variety of ways. It becomes gaslighting, becomes ambient abuse. The narcissist uses other people, which I coined another phrase to describe. I called them flying monkeys. So this type of abuse co-opts, recruits an entire community to do its bidding. It's not isolated like other types of abuse where there's a one-on-one abusive interaction, rejection, humiliation, physical abuse, verbal abuse. It's an integrated network approach to abuse. Everything becomes weaponized. Everything is used against the victim. People in the victim's life, the victim's family, friends, workplace, associations, interests, hobbies, fears, hopes, priorities, wishes. Confidential information shared in moments of intimacy.
This information is weaponized as well, is used against the victim at a later stage. I keep saying victim because while in the throes of narcissistic abuse, within a shared fantasy, within a shared psychotic space, the prey is immobilized. It's like these animals in nature who first inject the prey with poison, paralytic poison, nerve agent. The prey is immobilized. It has a freeze response. It's incapable of flight, incapable of fight. It just freezes there like a deer with a headlight. Only much later, victims can become survivors. But even then, they carry the abuse with them in a variety of ways.
The victims of narcissistic abuse appeared at the time when I coined the phrase and was the first to describe this type of abuse. They appeared to present a clinical picture substantially different to victims of other more pinpointed, more goal-oriented types of abuse. The victims of narcissistic abuse were more depressed, more anxious, much more disoriented, aggressive. There was defiant reactance. They took on traits and behaviors which are typical of narcissists and psychopaths defensively and all of them felt trapped. They felt trapped or hopeless. In other words, they have acquired learned helplessness, learned helplessness which was inculcated into them via intermittent reinforcement. They were in the throes of trauma bonding, the famous Stockholm syndrome.
It was a kind of cultish shared psychosis or shared psychotic disorder fully adieu. Repeated abuse has long lasting, very long lasting pernicious and traumatic effects such as panic attacks, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, flashbacks, intrusive memories, suicidal ideation and psychosomatic symptoms. All these have been amply documented over the past at least 70 years if not 100 years. The victims experience shame, depression, anxiety, embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, abandonment and an enhanced sense of vulnerability. you.