WATCH Narcissist Entrains Codependent, Borderline: Brainwash, Regulate, Repeat WATCH How to Individuate, Heal from Narcissistic Abuse WATCH Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: First Separate, Individuate The shared fantasy results in a mass psychogenic illness affecting both members of the couple as well as in the victim's prolonged grief disorder. This is because the grooming phase involves the induction of a trans or pseudo-hypnotic dissociative state in the suggestible targets: amnesia, depersonalization, derealization (gaslighting), and fantasy (paracosm). The abuser entrains (“brainwashes“) the abused party's mind and deploys intermittent reinforcement, approach-avoidance, trauma bonding, and abuse in all its forms to effect a transfer of regulatory functions from the victim to himself. The entrainment of the abuser's
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