Tag: Constriction

Constriction is the progressive narrowing of a person’s usable range of movement, choice, expression, perception, relationship, imagination, or world-access under conditions of captivity, threat, repeated consequence, or diminished capacity.

A person may remain outwardly functional while the range of what can actually be imagined, chosen, tolerated, or safely inhabited becomes increasingly small.

  • Invisible Captivity

    When the Architecture of Constraint Does Not Look Like Captivity Faith. Care. Clinical authority. Institutional responsibility. Loyalty. Belonging. Affection. None of these forms establishes captivity. The question is what happens inside the form. Can the survivor disagree without meaningful consequence?…

  • Captivity Logic

    How a closed threat system becomes compulsory from within. Captivity Logic describes what can happen when a person must continually live inside a consequential threat system without usable reprieve while agency, voice, autonomy, independent reality, or differentiation cannot be exercised…