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'''Group psychological abuse''' refers to groups where methods of ] are frequently or systematically used on their members. Such abuse would be practices that treat the members as objects one is free to manipulate instead of respecting their autonomy, ], identity and dignity.

Psychological abuse refers to practices that, simply stated, treat a person as an object to be manipulated and used, rather than as a subject whose mind, autonomy, identity, and dignity are to be honored.

Such groups can be whole countries, applying psychological coercion on their population like the ] or ], or political, commercial, or religious groups.

Some scholars in the wake of ] or ] have associated group psychological abuse with ] or ] and with ]s. The concepts to have similarities and overlap in some places, but they are not identical.

==References ==
* Chambers, W., Langone, M., Dole, A., & Grice, J. (1994). The Group Psychological Abuse Scale: A measure of the varieties of cultic abuse. CSJ, 11(1), 88-117.

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