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        "id": 1821703,
        "msgid": "psychologist-the-need-to-control-others-can-trigger-confinement-1782305728",
        "date": "2026-06-24 19:10:37",
        "title": "Psychologist: The Need to Control Others Can Trigger Confinement",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "A psychologist has stated that a deep-seated need for control and power, often stemming from feelings of powerlessness, can drive individuals to commit acts of confinement and abuse. The perpetrator may view the victim as a symbol of past tormentors, using them as an outlet for years of accumulated rage. The comments were made in response to a recent publicised case of alleged confinement and assault of a woman in Bandung Regency.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) - Psychologist Samanta Clara Elsener, S.Psi, M.Psi,\nPsikolog, has stated that the need to fully control and dominate another\nperson can be a factor driving someone to commit acts of confinement and\ntorture against a victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need for control and power is the most classic trigger.\nPerpetrators often feel powerless, like failures, or insignificant in\ntheir real lives or past experiences,\u201d Samanta said when contacted by\nANTARA on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the central board member of the Indonesian Psychology\nAssociation (PP HIMPSI), this feeling of powerlessness can drive a\nperson to seek extreme ways to gain control over another as a form of\ncompensation. In such conditions, the perpetrator attempts to place\nthemselves in a superior position by regulating various aspects of the\nvictim\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Samanta explained that besides the drive for power, acts of torture\ncan also be influenced by a diminished ability to feel the suffering of\nothers, or a loss of empathy. She said this condition can arise from\nvarious factors, ranging from the accumulation of severe stress,\nsubstance abuse such as drugs and alcohol, to disorders in the parts of\nthe brain that regulate empathy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA person can go as far as torturing someone because their brain no\nlonger responds to another\u2019s pain. There is a process of emotional\ndesensitisation or the death of empathy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the victim sometimes becomes a target for emotional\nrelease because they are perceived to represent a figure or experience\nthat hurt the perpetrator in the past. \u201cSometimes the victim becomes a\nsymbol of someone the perpetrator hated in the past. The perpetrator\nunleashes an accumulation of anger that has been suppressed for years\nonto the current victim,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Samanta made these remarks in response to a case of alleged\nconfinement and abuse involving a woman in Bandung Regency that has\ndrawn public attention in recent days.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/psychologist-the-need-to-control-others-can-trigger-confinement-1782305728",
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