Humiliating Torture

[saba1212]

Hello, I have another question for a story I'm writing, since I got a lot of help last time I asked.

I did a lot of researches about the title "above" such as (Humiliation torture, Humiliation in prisons, Humiliations in abduction, and similar things) but, unfortunately, I couldn't find what I exactly need

Comments

[tylik]

You might look into some of the learned helplessness models.

The basic idea is that you give the animal (or in this case a human) choices - but whatever choice they make, they are punished, until they more or less collape into a gellid heap.

For a human version, I'd probably focus (mind you, I'm a neurobiologist, not a psychologist, and I mostly work with motor systems, so most of this comes from thinking of how to be a good manager and then doing the opposite) on getting them to really think through their choices, and work really hard to come up with something that works - so they're really engaged with and attached to their process - and then having everything break. So they constantly need to be presented with the sense that they have real choices, and real power, and that if they can just work things out the right way they can win / get out / whatever... and then having it fail every time. But they can't go in knowing they are screwed. That illusion of hope is really important - because if they know there's no way out, then they won't feel like their own processing has failed when it all goes so veery bad.

[saba1212]

Sorry for my late reply! I like the idea of punishment due to the choices the one would make.
Thanks so much for your reply :)