Prof Sam Vaknin
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Drama Bond or Trauma Bond?
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January 13, 2025
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Trauma bonding is an extreme, unidirectional, self-harming attachment.
It is fostered by traumatizing, unpredictable, intermittent reinforcement involving a power asymmetry.
These lead to dissonance and ambivalence (identifying with the abuser).
Narcissist’s introject casts the narcissist as a victim. It explains why some victims feel guilty or remorseful or self-doubting for no good reason.
Trauma bonding is often a form of self-mutilation or self-harm, replete with the same three functions: 1. To numb dysregulated emotions that threaten to overwhelm us; 2. To allow us to feel alive through pain; 3. To punish, defeat, and destroy ourselves.
Drama Bonding is an extreme, bidirectional (collaborative) self-harming attachment.
It is fostered by traumatizing, unpredictable, intermittent reinforcement, object withdrawal, and structural narrative fantasy, uncertainty, indeterminacy, and insecurity involving a power asymmetry.
It leads to anxiety, desperation, and acting out.
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