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Narcissistic Abuse
Narcissistic abuse is a pattern of psychological manipulation and subtype of coercive control by individuals with narcissistic personality traits or narcissistic personality disorder.
It encompasses love-bombing, gaslighting, intermittent reinforcement, devaluation, financial exploitation, isolation, and discard — a cycle that is specifically designed to erode the target’s self-assessment, epistemic trust, and capacity for autonomous judgment.
Narcissistic Abuse Rehab was founded in 2019 by trauma recovery coach Manya Wakefield to provide evidence-based resources and one-to-one coaching for survivors. The site’s resources draw on the clinical literature of Evan Stark, Judith Herman, Bessel van der Kolk, and Craig Malkin, among others, and has been featured in Newsweek, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and HuffPost.
The discard phase is the third stage of the narcissistic abuse cycle. Learn what it is, why it hurts so much, and how to recover.
The devaluation phase of narcissistic abuse explained through cutting-edge 2024–2025 research on gaslighting, attachment, and trauma bonding.
Mortal discard names the category of terminal patterns in coercive control — social, extraction, induced-suicidality, and homicide.
Kellie Sutton’s case established the UK’s first “unlawful killing” inquest conclusion for self-inflicted death following coercive control.
Jealousy baiting is the deliberate use of comparisons and manufactured rivals to destabilize a partner. The research, patterns, and recovery.
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South Carolina’s Mica’s Law — a bill to criminalize coercive control — has stalled in committee. Here’s what happened and what’s next.
A dread game is a manipulation tactic designed to keep you in chronic fear of abandonment. Learn the signs, the psychological impact, and how to break free.
Understand the narcissistic bait and switch — from love bombing and future faking to devaluation — and how to recover.