Influence

Part 12 of 12  ·  Defense

The Reckoning

Consent, ethics and recovery: the law that governs influence, what repair after coercive control actually involves, and the synthesis at the end.

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1 The Line You Cannot Cross: Consent as the Boundary of InfluenceThe Belmont Report (National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, 1979) and its three principles — respect for…
2 Persuasion in the Consulting Room: The Ethics of Motivational InterviewingWilliam R. Miller’s ‘On the Ethics of Motivational Intervention’ (1994) and subsequent debate on whether motivational…
3 Hard on the Problem: Principled Negotiation as an Ethical AlternativeRoger Fisher and William Ury’s ‘Getting to Yes’ (Harvard Negotiation Project, 1981) and its framework of interests, options,…
4 Interrogation Without Coercion: Reforming How States Extract TruthIllinois Senate Bill 2122 (2021), the first U.S. law barring police from using deception when interrogating minors, and the UK…
5 Empathy Under Fire: The Crisis Negotiator’s Ethical ModelThe FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit’s Behavioral Change Stairway Model (active listening, empathy, rapport, influence, behavioral…
6 Raising the Uncontrollable Child: Authority Versus Psychological ControlBrian Barber’s research on parental psychological control (Child Development, 1996) distinguishing intrusive guilt- and…
7 Designing Against the User: Dark Patterns and the Regulator’s AnswerThe FTC staff report ‘Bringing Dark Patterns to Light’ (2022) and Article 25 of the EU Digital Services Act, which prohibits…
8 The Therapist’s Power: Dual Relationships and the Duty Not to ExploitThe American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Standard 3.05 on multiple…
9 How Good People Do It: Moral Disengagement in the OperatorAlbert Bandura’s mechanisms of moral disengagement (Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1999), including euphemistic…
10 When the Institution Turns on You: Betrayal Trauma at Organizational ScaleJennifer Freyd’s betrayal-trauma theory and the institutional-betrayal construct developed with Carly Smith at the University of…
11 Stage One: Safety and Stabilization After Coercive ControlJudith Herman’s ‘Trauma and Recovery’ (1992) and its first recovery stage — establishing safety — reaffirmed in Herman’s 1998…
12 Stage Two: Remembrance, Mourning, and the Reconstruction of the StoryHerman’s second recovery stage — remembrance and mourning — and its clinical implementation in the triphasic trauma treatment…
13 Stage Three: Reconnection and the Return of a FutureHerman’s third recovery stage — reconnection with ordinary life — and its emphasis on new relationships, agency and, for some…
14 Believing Yourself Again: Rebuilding Self-Trust After GaslightingPaige Sweet’s sociological analysis of gaslighting (American Sociological Review, 2019) read alongside Loftus’s misinformation…
15 Withdrawal: The Neurobiology of Leaving Someone You Still CraveDutton and Painter’s traumatic bonding research and clinical accounts of post-separation craving in survivors of narcissistic and…
16 Evidence-Based Repair: Treating Complex PTSD After Coercive ControlReviews of trauma-focused treatment for complex PTSD, including EMDR, cognitive processing therapy and phased…
17 The Shame That Keeps You Silent: Self-Compassion as Clinical ToolKristin Neff’s self-compassion research programme (University of Texas at Austin) and trials of brief self-compassionate writing…
18 What Grows After: Post-Traumatic Growth Without Toxic PositivityTedeschi and Calhoun’s post-traumatic growth model (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and its five domains: relating to…
19 Getting Someone Out: Ethical Exit Work Versus Coercive DeprogrammingSteven Hassan’s Strategic Interactive Approach, developed after the coercive deprogramming era and set out in ‘Freedom of Mind’,…
20 The Most Dangerous Moment: Advocacy and Safety Planning at SeparationSystematic reviews of advocacy interventions for intimate-partner violence survivors and domestic-violence sector guidance on…
21 Making Control a Crime: Section 76 and the Coercive Control OffenceSection 76 of the UK Serious Crime Act 2015, which created the offence of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or…
22 Breaking the Silence Clause: NDAs, the Speak Out Act, and Enforced SecrecyThe U.S. Speak Out Act (Public Law 117-224, signed 7 December 2022), which makes pre-dispute nondisclosure and non-disparagement…
23 The Cost of Telling: Whistleblower Psychology and RetaliationJeffrey Wigand’s 1995-1996 disclosure of Brown & Williamson’s tobacco practices on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and Sherron Watkins’s August…
24 Protection With Teeth: The Dodd-Frank Whistleblower RegimeSection 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010), which created the SEC whistleblower award…
25 Teaching a Child to Say No: Manipulation Resistance as CurriculumFinland’s national media-literacy programme, taught across the school curriculum and repeatedly cited as a model for…
26 Hardening the Organization: What Security Training Actually AchievesPeer-reviewed evaluations of organizational phishing simulations and continuous security-awareness training, including…
27 From Bystander to Intervener: Training the Heroic ResponseLatané and Darley’s bystander-intervention research on diffusion of responsibility, and Philip Zimbardo’s Heroic Imagination…
28 Reactance Without Paranoia: Staying Open in a World of OperatorsJack Brehm’s theory of psychological reactance (1966) and integrative reviews of resistance strategies and motives in persuasion…
29 The Master Protocol: A Cross-Book Synthesis ToolkitThe convergent evidence base of this book: Cialdini’s influence principles, Milgram’s obedience variations, Asch’s conformity…
30 The Dual-Use Problem: The Ethics of Writing and Reading This BookThe dual-use research of concern framework used in the life sciences (WHO and NIH guidance), and the documented banning of Robert…