Mental rape or the consistent intent to program someone into one's self being eradicating his or her's beliefs, thoughts, or attitudes. A taboo or unspoken practice often down played because of its abusive nature. In this discussion, I will attempt to aim at some key points on how, why and the effects of how this method has been used.
 It starts when we are young children from our parents grooming us, training and teaching us the knowledge they've grown up with. Some customize, some follow the same patterns. We are all taught lessons growing up in grade to high school all the way into college if you choose. These lessons per say contain vital pieces of information depending upon the instructor whether to conform or to be your own individual.
 Those who conform with the norm usually enjoy the benefits of life with little or no hassle from those who have accepted the norm as well. Now if the norm is a majority of the population then there is no issue. But if it is a minority, based on the currect state of socioeconomic status of the community you live in, you may stand to be highly effected in perhaps a negative way. This could go all the way from a world to national to your neighborhood level.
 Across the board, the definition of mental rape is "Being raped of your common knowledge of your current life and have it taken from you and replaced with someone elses information done out of fear and abuse without your consent and willing participation". This can happen by assaulting one's beliefs on to another unwillingly. Let's be clear, this doesn't mean an average man or woman attempting to make a point to one other in a healthy converstion or sharing an idea and trying to sell it to someone. This can be assaultive, plaguing and abusively annoying. For example if you tell me a belief you have and I don't like it and I decide I want to implement my regime upon you so I can forcibly change this belief when you clearly have no intent on changing, shouldn't the line be drawn at that point? To some yes. Others sometimes not. Some may even go as far to make comments, undertones, or even act differently to make you see their way thus creating an enviroment of mental rape if it's intrusively forced.
 Psychology, a very beautiful thing, however a touchy topic sometimes beloved, often abused. Why? The manipulative spore than makes us sneeze when we least expect it. Getting in to someone's head. Making them see my way. Better get with it. All these cliches baked into our human psyche serving up dishes of confusion for your factual beliefs. Only the reader may know what he or she may have experienced, lived through and learned. Their own personal book of facts embedded in the brain.
 Religion, this article in no way is deter anyone from their own personal relationship with their Most High but to set an anchor against mental thieves who pollute, contaminate and poison our minds with false facts. - ES
 

 Social undermining has been very effective in the workplace. Various aspects of social undermining have affected the workplace and specific races. In workplaces, social undermining has connection with social interaction. Research has shown if a person has a supportive environment in their work setting, they are more likely to have a more satisfied life. Research has shown that social undermining exists in a separate and distinct continuum when looking at positive workplace behavior (e.g. social support).
 Social undermining can arise through interactions with co-workers and supervisors; these interactions have an effect on the workers that are being undermined and can affect their work performance. Vinokur found that those who alleged to have social undermining in the workplace reported to have poorer mental health and experienced less well-being. The study shows that undermining has a significant role in worker-supervisor and co-worker relationship and that it leads to various different outcomes such as feelings of irritability, anxiety, depersonalization, and depression. It shows that social undermining affects a person’s work ethics and well being. Various different empirical studies have found that undermining has three specific factors that develop counterfactual thoughts. For example: "what would my life be like if I were not the target of undermining?" These studies' findings indicate that "this rift plays a role in determining the magnitude of the employee’s reaction to the event by making the deprived state more salient".

 Behaviors of social undermining can affect a person and his or her perceptions. The study conducted by Gant et al. addressed African American workers' perceptions of co-workers and supervisors. The research by Duffy, Gangster, Shaw, Johnson, and Pagon addressed the fairness theory introduced by Folger and Cropanzano 1998. The fairness theory suggests that when individuals face negative situations (such as being undermined by coworkers or supervision) they make cognitive comparisons known as counterfactual thoughts; i.e., they compare what actually happened to what might have been. The results show that social undermining is closely related to attitudes and behavior regarding one person being or feeling "singled out".

Envy
​ While social undermining can affect a person's behavior and attitude on their job, it can also bring about envy. Envy can have a positive or negative effect: positive effects include increased performance or attempts at self-improvement. However, envy can have some very harmful effects, including aggression or crime. It can lead to belittling, gossip, withholding information, and giving someone the silent treatment.

Abusive supervision
​ Abusive supervision can arise in different areas such as in the household, at school, and at a workplace. "Abusive supervision has been investigated as an antecedent to negative subordinate workplace outcome". "Workplace violence has combination of situational and personal factors" (e.g., Barling, 1996). The study that was conducted looked at the link between abusive supervision and different workplace events. Social undermining can arise from abusive supervision, such as when a supervisor uses negative actions and it leads to "flow downhill"; a supervisor is perceived as abusive.
Research has shown that "abusive supervision is a subjective assessment made by subordinates regarding their supervisors" behavior towards them over a period of time. For example, abusive supervision includes a "boss demeaning, belittling, or invading privacy of the subordinate.
 Hostile attribution bias is an extra punitive mentality where individuals tend to project blame on others. Researchers wanted to see how hostile attribution bias can moderate the relationship between perceptions of psychological contract violation and subordinates’ perceptions of abusive supervision. Undermining does arise with abusive supervision, which affects families and aggression; they believe that there is a stronger positive relationship between experiences of psychological contract violation and subordinates’ reports of abuse. It suggests that when someone has a negative work environment, it will affect their emotional training ground where this would result in negative home encounters. The findings from this study show that abused subordinates' family members reported a higher incidence of undermining in their home. When this occurs, complications arise at both home and work. Workplace abuse may be spawning negative interpersonal relations in the home, which may contribution to a downward spiral of relationships in both spheres.
 When a subordinate is being abused, it can lead to negative affect towards their family where the subordinate starts undermining their family members. The undermining can arise from displaced aggression which is "redirection of a [person’s] harm doing behavior from a primary to a secondary target" (Tedeschi & Norman, 1985, p. 30). Family undermining arises from a negative work environment: when someone above you puts you down, one starts to think that one should be put down by one's family members.
​​Excerpts of this blog were provided by Wikipedia