Tag: captivity mechanics

Captivity Mechanics describes the recurring processes through which captivity is created, maintained, enforced, or restored.

Within the Captivity Lens, these mechanics may include surveillance, punishment, forced carrying, forced extraction, coercive affection, silent treatment, imposed interpretation, restricted access, false mediation, guilt, retaliation, exile, and other means by which usable freedom is narrowed.

Captivity mechanics are identified by function rather than appearance. A behavior may look ordinary, caring, spiritual, professional, or relational while still functioning to preserve domination, suppress differentiation, increase dependency, or make refusal costly.

  • First Language Can Arrive From Outside Your Category

    Sometimes the first language that helps a person understand her experience comes from a category she does not belong to. She reads about coercive control. Trafficking. Domestic violence. High-control groups. Institutional abuse. Spiritual coercion. She knows immediately: That is not…