Tag: Enforced Reality Alignment
Enforced Reality Alignment occurs when a person is pressured or required to affirm an authority figure’s preferred account of events, identity, goodness, intentions, or legitimacy despite conflicting personal perception or experience.
Contradiction may be met with invalidation, punishment, exclusion, or relational pressure.
Within captivity, the mechanism restricts independent reality-testing by making agreement with the governing interpretation a condition of safety or belonging.
