The Psychologically Abused Spouse: Neurobiological Toll, Clinical Assessment, and Recovery
1. Introduction Psychological abuse within a marriage or intimate partnership involves a systematic pattern of coercive control, gaslighting, and emotional degradation designed to destroy the victim’s autonomy and self-worth. This chronic interpersonal trauma inflicts profound neurobiological damage, resulting in severe clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and long-term somatic diseases. While society and the legal system … Read more