I’ve seen all three types of psychological violence in my practice. I once had a client I’ll call Edna who looked like a sweet granny but sustained continuous, simmering mental violence. She thought constantly about the ways she wanted to hurt everyone from her neighbors, whom she envied, to world leaders, whom she despised, to entire cultures, whose customs she found subhuman. She spent hours each day writing blog posts about this to her three online followers, all of whom were bots.
