Psychological Manipulation

Psychological Manipulation and Induced Psychological Illness

As indicated on the home page, psychological harassment and psychological manipulation "mind control" can induce psychological and physical disorders.

When an individual is targeted, the level of harassment usually begins slowly and increases with time.

Anytime someone interacts with you they can influence your thoughts and also manipulate your thoughts.

Usually, people "tune out" the conversations around them. If you are in a crowded room and someone calls out your name they will probably attract your attention and the same goes for other specific words or sounds.

Individual's can recall or form images. The expression “I get the visual”. When someone talks about or describes a scene you may form an image even if you have never seen what the other person is talking about or describing.

An individual can come in close proximity to another individual and ask a question, If the individual hears the question, whether he is the target of the question or not, his mind can respond with an answer. The answer response can be in different forms such as an image or sound. For example, if the question is what does the person look like? The individual may form an image of the person in his mind. If the question is what is the person’s name? The individual’s mind may respond with the sound of the person’s name.

If someone says leave and slams a desk drawer or hits an object. This is a form of indirect intimidation, an indirect threat of violence. If these actions are repeated it can become a form of conditioning. The next time a person slams a desk drawer or hits an object the person may associate this as a threat.

Classical conditioning can be used to associate different threats to different things. (see also Fear Conditioning)

Bookmarks (sections):
Indirect Communication - State of Constant Interrogation
Indirect Threats - Verbal Maneuvering to Hide Direct Threats
Conditioning your mind Negatively or Positively
Rejection Hurts and can Lower Your Self-Esteem - Social Queues
Intrusive Thoughts - Inducing Degrading Images (Degrading Themes)
Ambiguities - Self Doubt and Uncertainties (A State of Limbo)
Metaphorical Speech – Hidden Threats and View on Reality Manipulation
Fear of Fear and Attacks to the Honor
Responsibility and Vulnerability
Ideation used to Manipulate Victims
Credibility and Psychological Warfare (Psychological Technology)
Psychological Manipulations used in Covert Type Investigations

Indirect Communication - State of Constant Interrogation (see Ivan Pavlov)

The group can begin by saying the individual's name, specific words, different sounds, and use other distracting actions to attract the individual's attention. The targeted individual realizes that the group is using some form of harassment and begins to listen to the group around him.

Using indirect communication the group can insult the target, attack the individual's dignity and integrity, ask questions, threaten, and continue to use specific words and sounds to attract the targeted individual’s attention.

The indirect communication is also a form of conditioning and can lead to psychological disorders in which the victim feels that he is in a constant state of interrogation. For example, the individual may go to a different environment and hear sounds, words, and questions. Because of the indirect communication and conditioning, the individual may feel that he is still in a state of interrogation and believe that individuals are trying to interact with him. Normally, people would usually simply “tune out” the sounds and conversations of other people.

This tactic is also used to induce paranoia.

Indirect Threats - Verbal Maneuvering to Hide Direct Threats

Sometimes a lot of verbal maneuvering and planning is used to hide or reduce the visibility and obviousness of a direct threat.

For example if a group makes subtle hints or insinuations about you being a homosexual for example, even though they probably know you are not, and then one of them says something like all homosexuals should be killed, it’s an indirect threat to you because of the maneuverings or it's less visible or obvious but it is still a direct threat to you.

As indicated on the home page, degrading themes are often used to prevent victims from coming forward and this is often the way they are used in combination with threats. The victim may have some reservations about claiming that he felt personally threatened by a threat that is made towards homosexuals. Other degrading themes, ethnics, and religions can also be used.

Conditioning your mind Negatively or Positively (see Ivan Pavlov)

Have you ever noticed that when someone is very negative and always complaining they may start to influence you and you may start to see only the negative events or negative side of things as they do?

The way you think can be conditioned and a person can also be psychologically manipulated to have a negative thinking pattern, to always see the negative side of things or expect the worse, or to see the negatives out of a situation or event reflexively instead of being open minded or thinking of the positives first.

A tactic often used is to also constantly interpret or expose the victim to negativity. In some cases it's used to induce or can lead to depression.

The opposite is also true. You can condition your mind to think positively or expect positive outcomes. It’s not easy at first and does require effort but eventually it can change and become almost automatic, reflexive, where you will be thinking positively instead of negatively. You may have heard these expressions: look on the bright side, put a positive spin on it or spin it positively. Try this exercise: Think of all the positives that you can imagine out of a situation or event and try to think of the possible positive outcomes first.

Rejection Hurts and can Lower Your Self-Esteem - Social Queues

Rejection hurts, registered as pain by the brain as mentioned on the home page, and rejection can be used in attempts to harm and also lower a person's self-esteem.

A person's self-esteem can be lowered or increased by conditioning the person to look only for certain social queues, disregard certain social queues, or by changing the meaning of certain social queues.

Smiling and laughter are very important and also have very positive effects on the brain.

A tactic often used is to try to condition, associate, negativity to the act of smiling and laughter.

Social queues like smiling indicates acceptance towards the person. A person can be conditioned to associate negativity such as a threat to a smile. If an individual is repetitively threatened or attacked by individuals that use a devilish or fake smile, that is then gradually reduced to a common smile while still engaging in this behavior, and combined with other tactics to induce paranoia, the result can be that the person will associate other peoples smiles to negativity because they are reminded of the behavior or because they are confused or uncertain as to its intention.

Laughter is associated to joy and acceptance also. Laughter is also a great stress and threat reducer.

A person can be conditioned to associate negativity such as threats or sarcasm and ridicule using the same tactics, as described above, to laughter.
Usually the desired emotion that the victim is manipulated or led to is anger because of its negative effects.

Intrusive Thoughts - Inducing Degrading Images (Degrading Themes)

Degrading themes can be not only disturbing to a person but also threatening. They are used to attack a persons dignity, self-image, self-esteem, induce stress, and often used in combination with negative conditioning.

A group can try to make a targeted individual form degrading and perverse images by using combinations of words, descriptions, sounds, and actions. When degrading themes are used on individuals, the targeted individual can suffer from a psychological disorder that some psychologists have termed "intrusive thoughts".

Also, as stated on the first page, insinuations, even though they are false, can have different affects on an individual. Insinuations of being a pedophile, a homosexual, a criminal, a liar, etc. Is a form of attack on a person, dignity and integrity, and can induces stress. Pedophilia is at the top of the list in hated things in our society and being labeled a pedophile has serious consequences. It would therefore explain why it is so often claimed to be used.

When degrading themes or different insinuations are used it can also be a form of catch 22 if a person's claims of being psychologically harassed or targeted are dismissed and they are told that it is all in their heads. Why do you have thoughts of being a pedophile, a homosexual, why do you feel threatened by it, etc. Psychiatry is also often used as a threat.

Degrading themes are often used to try to prevent people from coming forward.

Ambiguities - Self Doubt and Uncertainties (A State of Limbo)

Sometimes ambiguities are used to confuse the victim and leave them wondering what it is that they are suppose to do or be doing or what is the intended meaning. This can also affect the victim by placing them in doubt or used to induce self doubt and uncertainties, reduce decision making abilities, and can also have the “state of limbo” affect.

The ambiguities can also be manipulated as to hinting at a certain meaning and then modified to hint or indicate another meaning and so on to keep the victim confused or guessing as to what the true meaning of the ambiguities are. This can induce confusion, frustration, and self doubt.

Ambiguities can also be used for emotional manipulation such as inducing regret for example. One way this is done is by hinting at a certain meaning of what the ambiguities mean with very subtle hints at another and different meaning. After a period of time the meanings can be reversed or what was the subtle meaning can be clarified or made more obvious to the victim to induce regret, self doubt, and also attack or reduce the victim’s self-esteem and self-confidence.

Classical conditioning can also be used with ambiguities. For example the victim can be constantly bombarded with negativity or is lead to the conclusion that past ambiguities also had a negative meaning. Because of the conditioning the person will deduce or assume what is implied follows the same trend or pattern of negativity or theme. (see Conditioning your mind Negatively or Positively)

Song lyrics often use ambiguities so that the listener can apply the lyrics to their own life or view on reality. Ambiguities can also be used to influence a person's view on reality or in combination to efforts to change a person's view on reality.

Metaphorical Speech – Hidden Threats and View on Reality Manipulation

Sometimes people will use metaphors and metaphorical speech to try to hide different threats or use words that are not obvious in their association to a threatening nature and try to reduce the risk of exposure or criminal evidence.

The meaning of different words can also be changed (sarcasm). For example if two people that hate each other are using the words I love you, the intention of the words used do not have the same meaning as the words.

Metaphorical speech can also be used to change or manipulate the view on reality of a victim. For example metaphorical speech can be used to describe a certain view on reality or belief that is not the actual reality in an attempt to manipulate the person. (see Ideation in Suicide Factors)

The words profile, psychoanalyzed, we are going to fill you up (in the sense of creating a bad or false psychological profile) and using psychiatry as a threat is often used. The victim is psychologically harassed and also bombarded with degrading themes such as pedophilia and an attempt to make them believe that they will be labeled a pedophile, sexually confused, or a violent, angry, and dangerous person. The truth and reality is that this tactic is used by the perpetrators in an attempt to protect themselves, discredit the victim, and prevent the victim form exposing them.

Another example is referring to the victim as an animal and usually a dog. The attempts made by the victim to expose the perpetrators are then described as trying to bite or eat the perpetrators. Using metaphors that are orally oriented are then re-directed towards degrading themes in an attempt to prevent the victim from continuing the behavior of trying to expose the perpetrators. This example of the victim being described as a dog can also imply or insinuate that the person is less then human and can be controlled by a master or as a slave.

A better use of metaphors to describe the situation is that by trying to expose the perpetrators the victim is using the light (exposure and visibility) and the perpetrators trying to use the darkness (deception).

When your enemy uses the darkness and tries to hide in the darkness, you have to use the light.

Fear of Fear and Attacks to the Honor

Some people may feel that the feeling or emotion of fear attacks their honor.

A tactic that is used is to lead the victim to believe that to feel threatened and the resulting fight or flight response is about fear. Therefore the more threatened they feel equals more fear. This tactic deceives the victim and attacks them in two ways. The first is to threaten them causing the fight or flight response and the second is to simply feel threatened attacks their honor having the chain reaction of increasing the threat to them. This usually results in social withdrawal where the victim tries to avoid threatening situations or public areas.

Movies or Audio that projects fear or the emotion of fear can also affect an individual.

Responsibility and Vulnerability

A stressful situation and tactic that is sometimes used to induce stress on a person is to give a person full responsibility for a department, for example, but the control to make changes or take action is given to someone else. This can have the effect of making the person insecure or feel vulnerable because they have no control over what they are fully responsible or accountable for and also places them at the "mercy" of someone else that can harm their career.

Ideation used to Manipulate Victims

People can be led to believe things that are false in order to manipulate them and even to try to drive them to suicide or to harm others.

For example a person can be led to believe that they are about to be fired or constantly on the verge of being fired to induce stress, paranoia, and insecurity. Another example is to lead the person to believe that they will be sued or going bankrupt, will be falsely accused resulting in prison time, will never be employed again, or lose their spouse.

Used with degrading themes the victim can be led to believe that they will be labeled a pedophile or used as a prostitute. That the perpetrators control the world and that the victim must obey.

Credibility and Psychological Warfare (Psychological Technology)

When a group or an organization engages in Psychological Harassment or Psychological Warfare (Psychological Technology) they usually use tactics or operate in a way to discredit the victim or have the victim discredited.

It's an invisible technology that deals with the mind. Campaigns of disinformation or false information are usually used as well and part of Psychological Warfare also.

Psychological Manipulations used in Covert Type Investigations

Individuals can use words, actions, and sounds that will make a target recall memories associated to a specific event. Observers can note different reactions from the target such as fear, surprise, embarrassment (red face), anger, and different emotions. From these reactions the observers can obtain clues to the level of involvement or knowledge that the target may have about a certain event.

A simple example of this is if the targeted individual was involved in an event that has a specific location. The group can say the name of the location, like a street name. If the target doesn’t associate this to anything or any memories, he will disregard the comments of strangers and have no reaction. If, however, the target does associate it to something, he may, or may not, have different reactions.

This scenario maybe repeated several times with different association pointers to get a better view or result. Like taking many measurements and obtaining some kind of average or again, a better view.

This psychological manipulation scenario can also be used to stress, or panic, a target. And a possible motive would be to have them use some kind of telecommunication device, that the target believes to be secure, and to possibly push the target to communicate to a partner, that may also be involved in the event, where he would discuss the strange phenomenon that he believes is happening to him or discuss the event in question. It’s a fact that in the US, Canada, and the UK there are secret organizations that listen to all telecommunications in these countries and that they also share information among themselves. Many people also believe that these organizations share information with other organization indirectly or through indirect channels.

There are many possible psychological manipulation type scenarios that can involve the use of sensitive information or dark secrets. You may have seen a movie where the “bad guy” says something like “get me some dirt on this guy”. The information would be used to intimidate the target or induce fear, stress, and paranoia. This type of scenario can easily fall into the classification of black mail where the target is in a catch 22 situation. The target would have to reveal the sensitive information or dark secrets to law enforcement in order to obtain some kind of help or assistance. His claims could also simply be dismissed as paranoia or delusions. And even if his claims would happen to be believed, there simply would be no proof or evidence.

Psychological warfare or using psychiatry in strong arm tactics is not a new phenomenon and it usually involves discrediting the target or having them declared psychologically ill. These tactics and technologies are usually used by powerful organizations. An example of this can be seen in the movie blue sky, set in the 1950’s, where the army uses psychiatry to hospitalize and medicate the target.

(see also Coercive Mind Control Tactics)