Destabilisation

The word destabilisation can be applied to a wide variety of contexts such as attempts to undermine political, military or economic power. In a psychological context it is used as a technique in brain washing and abuse to disorientate and disarm the victim. For example, in the context of workplace bullying, destabilisation applied to the victim may involve:^{[1] [2]}

• failure to acknowledge good work and value the victim's efforts
• allocation of meaningless tasks
• removal of areas of responsibility without consultation
• repeated reminders of blunders
• setting up to fail
• shifting of goal posts without telling the victim
• persistent attempts to demoralise the victim.

See also

• Cognitive distortion
• Discrediting tactic
• Economic terrorism
• Gaslighting
• Mind games
• Passive–aggressive behavior
• Personal boundaries
• Psychological abuse
• Social undermining
• Stabilizer
• Subversion

References

1. ^ Rayner C, Hoel H, Cooper CL Workplace Bullying: What we know, who is to blame and what can we do? (2001)
2. ^ Peyton PR Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create a Positive Working Environment (2003)

Further reading

• von Beyme K Parliamentary Democracy: Democratization, Destabilization, Reconsolidation 1789-1999 (2000)
• Dzimba J South Africa's Destabilization of Zimbabwe, 1980-89 (1998)
• Johnson P Martin D Apartheid Terrorism: The Destabilization Report (Changing Southern Africa) (1990)
• Murillo M Avirama JR Colombia and the United States : War, Unrest, and Destabilization (2003)
• Sen M Challenge of destabilisation (1987)
• Siṅgha D Destabilisation and subversion: new challenges (1987)