Psychological violence occurs when someone uses threats and causes fear in you to gain control.

Psychological Abuse is:

threatening to harm you, your children or your family if you leave
threatening to harm themselves
threats of violence
threats of abandonment or breaking up
destruction of your personal property
social isolation from your family and friends
being dominent over you
confinement to the home
verbal aggression (name calling, yelling, insults, imitating or mocking you)
Excluding you from meaningful events or activities
not allowing you to have visitors or preventing you from being around certain people
constant humiliation
telling you that you are not good enough - that no one else would ever want you or put up with you
intentionally frightening you
making derogative or slanderous statements about you to others, telling others things you said or did to cause drama