A form of institutionalized estrangement, shunning hurts health of the excluded.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brothers-sisters-strangers/202403/how-religious-shunning-ruins-lives
The Silence of Shunning: A Conversation With Kipling William
Shunning is an act of control and aggression, with powerful consequences.
Excerpt:
I’ve written a number of pieces about mobbing, which is group bullying against an individual. Yet one of the most painful aspects of mobbing may be the...
Shunning: The Trauma of Being Cut Off
Destructive cults control members through fear of excommunication.
KEY POINTS
Shunning is a dangerous practice used by cults.
Those who are kicked out of authoritarian religious organizations are cut off from their entire social universe.
The threat of...
These are 2 articles about 'shunning' on Psychology today.
Excerpts:
In the past few months, the topic of shunning has presented itself to us one too many times to be ignored. And so we off-road from our usual topic of PTSD and delve into this unfortunately pervasive social phenomenon.
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