The 'Art' of Bullying [Part of 'Psychological Violence In Society'] ©2003 John Latter (jorolat@aol.com)

 (Provisional Outline)

Contents:

1) Introduction:

2) Internal Model of a Victim

3) Internal Model of a Bully

4) Basic Interactions between Bully & Victim

5) Link between Bullying and Pedophilia (alt. Paedophilia)

6) Effective and Ineffective Countermeasures

7) Institutionalized Bullying

8) Summaries of Characteristics

9) Conclusions

1) Introduction [1st draft - 22nd Jan '03]:

On July 15th 1998 a BBC television chat show called "Kilroy" discussed bullying. The following happened as members of the audience took turns to recall their experiences of being bullied while at school:

               A 43 year-old man broke down in tears

               A woman became distressed over events that had happened 27 years earlier

               Another woman said she had attempted suicide on 4 occasions

               Yet another had tried to kill herself "several times"

      Earlier in the same year the charity Kidscape (homepage) announced the results of a survey carried out over a 3 year period and involving 850 adults: those who had been bullied at school were 7 times more likely to have made a subsequent attempt on their life than those who had not.

     Two months later the charity Scope (homepage) announced that children with disabilities were 3 times more likely to be bullied than those without. There is an abundance of similar, and more recent, information.

     To understand how 'bullying' can cause human beings to commit suicide, or make repeated attempts to do so throughout their lives, "The 'Art' of Bullying" initially focusses on those bullies and victims whose psychological profiles most closely match the Internal Models described below. This approach, of examining the most vulnerable of victims and most professional of bullies, enables the fundamental reason why bullying 'works' to be clearly identified.

     Everyone is affected by bullying, even if only 'momentarily', and the following also establishes why this is so: bullying is not a function of natural life.

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2) Internal Model of a Victim

Basic Trauma

3) Internal Model of a Bully

Compounded Trauma (transformation)

4) Basic Interactions between Bully & Victim

Inc. Recovery Period, Techniques

5) Link between Bullying and Pedophilia (alt. Paedophilia)

6) Effective and Ineffective Countermeasures

7) Institutionalized Bullying

1) 'Natural Leadership' v. 'People Have To Be Controlled'

The (un)nature of 'Control' - how it is applied & maintained

2) Psychological Hierarchies

How to form an hierarchy - Surrogates - inc. 'empowerment' of the psychologically violent - plus subsection on 'Psychological Homosexuality (1)' (personality characteristics, modus operandi, gossip, etc..)

8) Summaries of Characteristics

9) Conclusions

"Words frozen in time should be differentiated from those carved in stone" - John Latter

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