The core of the problem, as the author phrases, is that they define the victim who starts to believe what was said about her and starts to feel ashamed. By defining somebody’s self and inner world means the deprivation of his or her personal freedom (221-223). Victims, who live in chaos, repetitive anger outbursts, or who are tortured (psychologically speaking) with silence treatment filled with rejection and the denial of kindness and hostility that from the outside looks brilliant and happy, suffer from the inside and start to give up hope ( 223). Then they start to believe and identify with the assigned character the abuser …show more content…
Many psychologist are not able to track why a verbally abusive man is behaving like this. This is though not a generalized description of all men, as the author points out because many men have very happy relationships with their partners, regardless their less promising careers (Lynch). Masculine depression and verbal violence as a result of it can be also temporary