Suppression, 17

Shaming and throwing salt on wounds: voicing as a mantra that “you shoud be ashamed of yourself”, targeting with it anything in the victim that might overshadow their influence, that is both the positive qualities and attainments building up just pride and sense of self, and the wounds suffered, exacerbating them and insinuating the victim must have done something to deserve them.
Suffocating control and micromanagement, and emotional destabilisation: seeking and maintaining a centralising and capillary control over every facet of the victims’ life, including such critical issues as finances, relationships and emotions to begin with, to isolate them, erode their stability and build up their dependence on them, and then, in addition to thus keeping the victims under their thumb, subjecting them to permanent emotional roller−coaster by alternating angry conflicts and estrangements over ill−founded pretexts to reconciliation and re−idealisation as in love−bombing, once ther grip starts to loosen, as a strategy to further build up the victims’ dependence and subserviency by throwing their energies off−track in wondering where did they go wrong and in attempting in vain to fix it.
Conversation as Verbal Competition: conversation for them, any conversation, is never a cooperation and always a competition, never aimed at communicating constructively, but always at manipulating, confusing, controlling, destabilising, casting doubt, distorting reality, creating drama, deflecting accountability and, last but not least, winning it at all costs and by all means, from interrupting the other person and monopolising the conversation to making it crazy, dramatic, chaotic, exhausting and mind−spinning, to switching to the silent treatment.
Refusing critisism violently, and lacking introspection totally: they might undermine the indispensable perfect image of themselves they cling on.
Revealing their complete lack of empathy: they can give themselves away by lying and doing or endorsing without blinking an eye things so cruel, inhuman or premeditated another wouldn’t even think of without feeling the call of their conscience and humanity.