Prof Sam Vaknin
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Reverse Psychology: CPTSD, Intermittent Reinforcement, Reactance, Strategic Self-anticonformity

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November 13, 2022

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Reverse psychology is manipulating someone to act in a specific way by deceptively stating fake beliefs, values, and opinions or views. It is based of triggering reactance and strategic self-anticonformity.

Techniques of Reverse Psychology:

Tough Love

Mirroring

Challenging: prove me wrong

Challenging: prove me right

Pseudo-humility

Inconsistency

Nagging

Provocation

Denigrating (underdog injustice)

Example of reverse psychology in action:

CPTSD easily becomes psychopathy, narcissism, borderline – but also self-destructiveness

Intermittent reinforcement creates ambivalence and dissonance. The abuser is perceived as TWO separate people.

Ambivalence and dissonance yield intolerable anxiety.

To ameliorate anxiety, you might fantasize about the abuser being dead.

Killing the hated external object preserves the loved internal object.

Another mechanism is to preserve both the external and the internal objects by redirecting your hate at yourself.

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