Exploring the Long-Term Damaging Effects of Coercive Manipulation and Verbal Abuse

This paper explores the long-term psychological and neurological effects of coercive manipulation tactics, particularly those resembling MK-Ultra-adjacent strategies and common patterns in emotional domestic violence. Without the use of substances or pharmacological agents, psychological conditioning methods such as gaslighting, emotional flooding, moral inversion, and trauma bonding are shown to produce chronic cognitive disruption, identity fragmentation, and loss of moral autonomy[1][2][3]. Through trauma theory, neuroscience, and survivor-informed analysis, this paper identifies key zones of psychological impact and calls for renewed ethical recognition of emotional manipulation as a form of psychological torture, Jezreel Dequina (2025)