Mind games
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Playing mind games (also power games or head games) is the largely conscious struggle for psychological one-upmanship, often employing passive–aggressive behavior to specifically demoralize or dis-empower the thinking subject, making the aggressor look superior. It also describes the unconscious games played by people engaged in ulterior transactions of which they are not fully aware, and which transactional analysis considers to form a central element of social life all over the world.
The first known use of the term "mind game" dates from 1963, and "head game" from 1977.
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- Abusive power and control
- Climate of fear
- Destabilisation
- Emotional blackmail
- Games People Play (book)
- Gaslighting
- Guilt trip
- Hypnosis
- The Imaginary (psychoanalysis)
- Isolation to facilitate abuse
- Let the Wookiee win
- Mind control
- Moving the goalposts
- Noisy investigation
- Obfuscation
- Presumption of guilt
- Psychological manipulation
- Setting up to fail
- Silent treatment
- Transactional analysis
- Triangulation (psychology)
- Victim blaming
- Victim playing
- Word salad
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