It is not only guys that play mind games. Both genders use mind games both in and out of relationships.
The term mind games can fall into three main categories:
One is a largely conscious struggle for psychological one-upmanship, often employing passive-aggressive behavior to specifically demoralize or empower the other which makes the aggressor look superior. This can be known as mind games or power games.
Another way is the unconscious games played by innocent people engaged in duplex transactions of which they are not fully aware, and which form the most important aspect of social life all over the world theses are known in the psychological field as transactional analysis, and in the Karpman drama triangle.
Another form of mind game, however it is presumed that it is not the sort that the question is asking about, are mental exercises designed to improve the functioning of mind and/or personality.
In relationships, generally women tend use the term mind games to refer to the ways their partners undermine their confidence in their own perceptions. For example, Jack may act upon Jill in many ways. He may invalidate her experience, invalidate not only the significance, modality, and content, but her very capacity to remember at all, and make her feel guilty for doing so and using this to make a with bargain her for something he wants. Such abusive mind games may extend to discounting, denial of the victim's reality, diverting, trivializing, undermining, threatening, and most dangerously anger.
It is clear however that verbal persuasion is truly an equal-opportunity behavior open to both sexes. This may be done unintentionally as a by-product of each person's self-deception. For example, it is impossible for someone to maintain a false picture of themselves unless they falsify the picture of someone else. With straight talk at one end of a scale, at the other end of a theoretical scale, conversations can be characterized by the presence of numerous disclaimed, contradictory, and paradoxical implications.
The term mind games can fall into three main categories:
One is a largely conscious struggle for psychological one-upmanship, often employing passive-aggressive behavior to specifically demoralize or empower the other which makes the aggressor look superior. This can be known as mind games or power games.
Another way is the unconscious games played by innocent people engaged in duplex transactions of which they are not fully aware, and which form the most important aspect of social life all over the world theses are known in the psychological field as transactional analysis, and in the Karpman drama triangle.
Another form of mind game, however it is presumed that it is not the sort that the question is asking about, are mental exercises designed to improve the functioning of mind and/or personality.
In relationships, generally women tend use the term mind games to refer to the ways their partners undermine their confidence in their own perceptions. For example, Jack may act upon Jill in many ways. He may invalidate her experience, invalidate not only the significance, modality, and content, but her very capacity to remember at all, and make her feel guilty for doing so and using this to make a with bargain her for something he wants. Such abusive mind games may extend to discounting, denial of the victim's reality, diverting, trivializing, undermining, threatening, and most dangerously anger.
It is clear however that verbal persuasion is truly an equal-opportunity behavior open to both sexes. This may be done unintentionally as a by-product of each person's self-deception. For example, it is impossible for someone to maintain a false picture of themselves unless they falsify the picture of someone else. With straight talk at one end of a scale, at the other end of a theoretical scale, conversations can be characterized by the presence of numerous disclaimed, contradictory, and paradoxical implications.
