Coercion
From FactNet
Coercion is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as:
- To force to act or think in a certain manner
- To dominate, restrain, or control by force
- To bring about by force.
The following is an excerpt of the 7 tactics used in coercive psychological persuasion, illustrating my own personal situation.
Tactic 2: Establish control over the person's social environment, time and sources of social support by a system of often-excessive rewards and punishments. Social isolation is promoted. Contact with family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share group-approved attitudes. Economic and other dependence on the group is fostered.
Tactic 3: Prohibit disconfirming information and non-supporting opinions in group communication. Communication is highly controlled.
Tactic 4: Make the person re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control and defense mechanisms. The subject is guided to reinterpret his or her life's history and adopt a new version of causality.
Tactic 7: Intimidate the person with the force of group-sanctioned secular psychological threats. For example, it may be suggested or implied that failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief or consequent behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire consequences such as physical or mental illness, the reappearance of a prior physical illness, drug dependence, economic collapse, social failure, divorce, disintegration, failure to find a mate, etc.