crazy-making
crazy-making is the alternative form of crazymaking.
Meaning of crazymaking
Noun
crazymaking (uncountable)
- A form of psychological attack on somebody by offering contradictory alternatives and criticizing the person for choosing either.
- Crazymaking interactions can occur between parent and child, husband and wife, employer and employee, and among friends. Of course, the most lethal of such interactions are found within the context of the parent-child relationship[…]1974, George Robert Bach, Herb Goldberg, Creative Aggression: The Art of Assertive Living, page 86
Questions about crazy-making
- What is crazy-making the alternative form of?
- Crazy-making is the alternative form of crazymaking.
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