Reverse Psychology: CPTSD, Intermittent Reinforcement, Reactance, Strategic Self-anticonformity
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2022-11-13

Reverse psychology is manipulating someone to act in a specific way by deceptively stating fake beliefs, values, and opinions or views. It is based of triggering reactance and strategic self-anticonformity.

Techniques of Reverse Psychology:

Tough Love
Mirroring
Challenging: prove me wrong
Challenging: prove me right
Pseudo-humility
Inconsistency
Nagging
Provocation
Denigrating (underdog injustice)

Example of reverse psychology in action:

CPTSD easily becomes psychopathy, narcissism, borderline – but also self-destructiveness

Intermittent reinforcement creates ambivalence and dissonance. The abuser is perceived as TWO separate people.

Ambivalence and dissonance yield intolerable anxiety.

To ameliorate anxiety, you might fantasize about the abuser being dead.

Killing the hated external object preserves the loved internal object.

Another mechanism is to preserve both the external and the internal objects by redirecting your hate at yourself.

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