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Essay: Psychological manipulation in the Bible (view source)
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'''Psychological manipulation''' can be perceived as an attempt made by manipulative person (''manipulator'') beyond his/her competence to cause the other person's (''manipulated victim'') specific conduct in certain matter, according to own wishes of manipulator. From this point of view, the manipulation assumes therefore the definition of competencies, including its rigid boundaries. For the crossing of that boundary then unethical means are applied.
The psychological manipulation is therefore most often encountered when people usurp right to rule over the whole area of human life of another person, including his/her privacy, while they still realize that they have no legitimate means to achieve for it. Briefly speaking, one could state that the principle of manipulation reflects the well-known profane saying "the end justifies the means."<ref name="APOLOGET">{{cite web
|title= Co je manipulace? (What is manipulation?)
|author=Aleš Franc
|publisher=http://www.apologet.cz
|url=http://www.apologet.cz/?q=articles/category/31-duchovni-manipulace/id/130-co-je-to-manipulace
|language=Czech}}</ref> In the early 1970, psychologist Richard Christie made proposition that being manipulator according to this principle is very nearly synonymous to so called [[Machiavellianism|Machiavellian]] personality. This distinct personality style is then characterized by manipulativeness, cynism about human nature, and shrewdness in interpresonal behavior marked by using tactics that are exploitative, self-serving, and nearly always deceptive.<ref name="Braiker">{{cite book
|author=Harriet B. Braiker
|title=Who's pulling your strings? How to break the cycle of manipulation and regain the control of your life
|publisher=The McGraw Hill
|year=2004
|place=New York
|pages=85
|isbn=0-07-144672-9
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wGbZ2ynQOokC&q=inauthor:%22Harriet+Braiker%22&dq=inauthor:%22Harriet+Braiker%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=h1-KUNPDFIWq0QXWo4DgCw&redir_esc=y
}}</ref>
==Techniques of manipulation==
==Techniques of manipulation==
Manipulator is using multitude of techniques in which he/she tries to hide his/her own wishes and practices in the name of community welfare or higher power.
Manipulator is using multitude of techniques in which he/she tries to hide his/her own wishes and practices in the name of community welfare or higher power.
Manipulative people in power are usually trying to elicit a feeling of guilt from their victims; they use emotional blackmail and make appeals for responsibility whereas on the other hand the attention is intentionally driven to distraction from the real issue or subject.
Manipulative people in power are usually trying to elicit a feeling of guilt from their victims; they use emotional blackmail and make appeals for responsibility whereas on the other hand the attention is intentionally driven to distraction from the real issue or subject.
During process of manipulation it is common to state things that are in discrepancy with reality or seriously distort it what normally in turn triggers a strong emotional reaction. That is then often proposed to be perceived by uninformed audience as an expression of soar, bad faith or lack of loyalty on the side of victim.
During process of manipulation it is common to state things that are in discrepancy with reality or seriously distort it what normally in turn triggers a strong emotional reaction. That is then often proposed to be perceived by uninformed audience as an expression of soar, bad faith or lack of loyalty on the side of victim.
For manipulator, an important factor is to focus on the way how to make the expected deformed impression rather than focus on facts or nature of the problem itself. If the one that manipulates succeeds in causing the strong emotive reaction, then he pretends to conduct himself in an extraordinarily kind manner, showing off as trying to achieve for settling the dispute, while pointing out it is the opponent who let himself to be governed by “bad faith” hence disclosing that the problem must be evidently at his side. In order to provoke inappropriate response, fabricated or invented disfavoring personal information is usually being spread, or even more preferably, some distorted real information presented against the victim of manipulation.<ref name="APOLOGET">{{cite web
For manipulator, an important factor is to focus on the way how to make the expected deformed impression rather than focus on facts or nature of the problem itself. If the one that manipulates succeeds in causing the strong emotive reaction, then he pretends to conduct himself in an extraordinarily kind manner, showing off as trying to achieve for settling the dispute, while pointing out it is the opponent who let himself to be governed by “bad faith” hence disclosing that the problem must be evidently at his side. In order to provoke inappropriate response, fabricated or invented disfavoring personal information is usually being spread, or even more preferably, some distorted real information presented against the victim of manipulation.
===Non-verbal Techniques of manipulation===
===Non-verbal Techniques of manipulation===