Moral Harassment. The Perverse Violence in Everyday Life
The mental abuse could exist in couples, families, business companies and in every community - school, university, association ... It often resembles kidding or nagging, often gives the impression that the one who is subjected to moral harassment, almost "deserves it." In fact, it is neither more nor less mental murder. Because words can destabilize, manipulate, ruin ... and even kill.
Marie-France Hirigoyen
Marie-France Hirigoyen was born in 1949 in France. Having doctor’s degree in medicine, she is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist specialised in mobbing, a form of bullying. Her interest in stress led her in the mid-1980s into victimology, a branch of criminology. She later turned her attention to workplace stress generated by mobbing behaviour.
Her publications include "Moral Harassment: The Perverse Violence of Daily Life" ("Le harcèlement moral, la violence perverse au quotidien"), which sold 450,000 copies in her native country and was translated and sold in 24 other countries, not excluding Bulgaria (Colibri, 2001).
