Silent treatment

Silent treatment is the refusal to communicate verbally or electronically with someone who is trying to communicate and elicit a response. It may range from just sulking to malevolent abusive controlling behaviour. It may be a passive-aggressive form of emotional abuse in which displeasure, disapproval and contempt is exhibited through nonverbal gestures while maintaining verbal silence.^[1] Clinical psychologist Harriet Braiker identifies it as a form of manipulative punishment.^[2] It may be used as a form of social rejection; according to the social psychologist Kipling Williams, it is the most common form of ostracism.

^ Booth, Sally Scollay (2017). "Planned Ignoring". The Challenge of Teaching. pp. 181–187. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2571-6_25. ISBN 978-981-10-2569-3. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
^ Braiker, Harriet B. (2004). Who's Pulling Your Strings ? How to Break The Cycle of Manipulation. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 0-07-144672-9.

[:0-1] Booth, Sally Scollay (2017). "Planned Ignoring". The Challenge of Teaching. pp. 181–187. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2571-6_25. ISBN 978-981-10-2569-3. Retrieved 1 August 2016.

[braiker-2] Braiker, Harriet B. (2004). Who's Pulling Your Strings ? How to Break The Cycle of Manipulation. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 0-07-144672-9.

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