The following story of surviving abuse was submitted by one of our readers. Many, many thanks to Deborah for telling it. Trigger Warning as it contains detailed descriptions of abuse: *** I have been divorced from my ex-husband for almost two years now and separated for over three. My ex-husband progressively emotionally, financially, sexually, and… Continue reading Deborah’s Story
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Covert aggression is not the same as passive aggression
In George Simon Jnr's brilliant book Character Disturbance [Affiliate link], he talks a little about passive aggression and distinguishes it from covert aggression. On pages 74-75 he says: Passive-aggression is an often misunderstood and mislabeled personality type. The official psychiatric manual doesn't even recognize this as a personality pattern any more....Unfortunately, clinicians and lay people alike… Continue reading Covert aggression is not the same as passive aggression
