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The silent treatment is a refusal to communicate verbally with someone who desires the communication. Silent Treatment or The Silent Treatment may also refer to * ''Silent Treatment'' (The Bled album), 2007 * ''Silent Treatment'' (Pati Yang album), 2005 * ''The Silent Treatment'' (Mark Deutrom album), 2001 * ''Silent Treatment'', a 1986 album by Long John Baldry John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English musician and actor. In the 1960s, he was one of the first British vocalists to sing the blues in clubs and shared the stage with many British musicians including t ... * ''Silent Treatment'' (Highasakite album), 2014 * "Silent Treatment" (song), a 1980 song by Earl Thomas Conley * "Silent Treatment" (''Whitney''), a 2011 episode of the TV series ''Whitney'' * "Silent Treatment" (''The Powerpuff Girls''), a 2003 episode of the TV series ''The Powerpuff Girls'' * "The Silent Treatment" (''PB&J Otter''), a 1998 episode of the TV se ...
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Silent Treatment
Silent treatment is the refusal to communicate verbally and electronically with someone who is trying to communicate and elicit a response. It may range from just sulking to malevolent abusive controlling behaviour. It may be a passive-aggressive form of emotional abuse in which displeasure, disapproval and contempt is exhibited through nonverbal gestures while maintaining verbal silence. Clinical psychologist Harriet Braiker identifies it as a form of manipulative punishment. It may be used as a form of social rejection; according to the social psychologist Kipling Williams it is the most common form of ostracism. Origin of term The term originated from "treatment" through silence, which was fashionable in prisons in the 19th century. In use since the prison reforms of 1835, the silent treatment was used in prisons as an alternative to physical punishment, as it was believed that forbidding prisoners from speaking, calling them by a number rather than their name, and making ...
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