THE PERVERSE COMMUNICATION IN MORAL HARASSMENT
About this training. Benoît Demonty presents a course on perverse communication designed to equip you to help patients caught in the grip of narcissistic-perverse relatives. The teaching unfolds across nine lessons: (1) healthy versus unhealthy communication, (2) what bullying and manipulation are, (3) perverse manipulation, (4) the profile of the perverse manipulator, (5) manipulation and psychological maturity, (6) the profile of the victim, (7) the consequences of manipulation, (8) healing the victim, and (9) thwarting the manipulation. Along the way, a range of therapeutic techniques is proposed to help your patients recognize manipulation — and defeat it.
Learning objectives
- Identify the components of perverse communication in bullying.
- Know which strategies to use when facing perverse communication.
- Analyse patients’ explicit and implicit demands.
- Understand the mechanics of perverse communication well enough to avoid its traps.
- Tell healthy from unhealthy communication.
- Distinguish the three kinds of manipulation — benevolent, egocentric, malicious — and analyse the criteria of perverse manipulation.
- Profile the perverse manipulator, and profile the victim.
- Discover techniques for outwitting perverse manipulation (the fog technique).
- Support the victim with practical guidance.
Pedagogical materials. Nine videos on perverse communication, plus one 20-question multiple-choice test for the certificate (70% correct answers required).
The lesson plan
- Video 1 — Telling healthy from unhealthy communication (practical simulation on video).
- Video 2 — Bullying versus manipulation, with a video testimony.
- Video 3 — Perverse communication (film excerpt with analysis); criteria of perverse manipulation, part 1.
- Video 4 — Criteria of perverse manipulation, part 2.
- Video 5 — The profile of the perverse manipulator, part 1.
- Video 6 — The profile of the perverse manipulator, part 2.
- Video 7 — The profile of the victim and the consequences of manipulation.
- Video 8 — Healing: breaking free of the grip, therapeutic techniques.
- Video 9 — Preventing manipulation: practical advice.
Training in partnership with ASBL Education et Famille (University of Mons) and coursesPsy (H4 Publishing).