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Abuse of power occurs where the protagonist has control of the contingencies in a situation (those in power, whether through authority, coercion, dominance or leadership etc), and because of the lack of counter control, acts in ways which are damaging to the other.
Abuse is a general term for the use or treatment of something (person, thing, idea, etc.) that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person or thing, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) or is unlawful or wrongful. Its close synonyms are mistreatment and maltreatment. The word "misuse" has a more distant meaning of incorrect, uneducated use, not necessarily harmful.
Psychologists have studied abuse in a wide variety of contexts.
- Abuse of interpersonal power
- Abuse of political power
- Abuse of professional power
- Abuse of social power
Particular forms of abuse[]
- Animal abuse: Abuse or cruelty directed at animals.
- Bullying
- Child abuse: Abuse, usually physical, emotional or sexual, directed at a child.
- Childhood sexual abuse
- Emotional or psychological abuse: coercion, humiliation, intimidation. Where one person uses emotional or psychological manipulation to compel another to do something they do not want, or is not in their best interests; or when one person manipulates another's emotional or psychological state for their own ends (see battered woman syndrome).
- Elder abuse: Abuse, most often physical or in the form of psychological threats, directed at the elderly, especially in nursing homes and similar institutions.
- Human rights abuse violation of human rights.
- Legal Abuse: The use of legal procedures to retaliate, coerce, or emotionally/financially harm a person (e.g., certain lawsuits).
- Physical abuse: Where one person inflicts physical violence or pain on another.
- Rankism
- Sexual abuse: The improper use of another person for sexual purposes, generally without their consent or under physical or psychological pressure. It is often inflicted on children.
- Spousal abuse: Abuse, usually physical, or psychological abuse, directed at one's spouse.
- Verbal abuse: The use of foul language, obscenities or demeaning talk directed at another.
See also[]
- Abuse reporting
- Authoritarianism
- Bigotry
- Bullying
- Cruelty
- Cultism
- Discrimination
- Drama
- Human rights
- Malignant narcissism
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Police brutality
- Psychopathy
- Sadism
- Sexual abuse
- Structural abuse
- Rape
- Violence
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