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  %AFFECTIVE EMOTION COERCIVE MANIPULATIVE VIOLENCE 880522

     Not all violence is physical in  nature.  Violence is
the violation of the integrity of that which is the victim
of  the violence. Just as there are many  kinds/aspects of
integrity,  so also  there are many  kinds of violence and
violations.

     People have affective and emotional needs. People are
communal people,  and have needs for communal affirmations
and  integration.    Such  personal  needs  for   communal
affirmation can  be used  to do violence to people.   Such
needs make people vulnerable to other people who are prone
to  manipulation.    Some  people seek  to  control  other
people. Power to exercise such control often is based upon
basic  human  needs;   e.g.,   human  needs  for  communal
affirmation and  emotional connections.   Manipulators may
put  such needs to use, in violent ways,  and gain control
in  dishonest  maneuvers  which  may  not be  evident   to
the victims of the manipulation.

For  a  community  to  survive  with  integrity  the
community  needs to have ways of recognizing and revealing
to  public  view  instances  of  affective  and  emotional
violence.  People who engage in  emotional  and  affective
violence should not be accorded communal respect for their
violent  activities.   To  withhold  such  respect  it  is
essential  for members of the community to recognize those
kind  of violence for what they are.  Such recognition  is
not easy to achieve,  for affective and emotional violence
can be very subtle.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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