The phrase "abuse itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of abuse as a concept or phenomenon, often in discussions about its nature or implications.
Example: "The cycle of abuse itself can be difficult to break without proper intervention."
Alternatives: "the act of abuse" or "abuse as a concept".
By gaining familiarity with these types of emotional abusive relationships, in addition to education on emotional abuse itself, you can make the right decisions that help you reach positive relationship goals.
This may be a subtle hint that the subgroup of cannabis abusers lower their threshold of psychosis through drug abuse itself and the other subgroup increases the vulnerability by presenting slightly more brain abnormalities.
In "Elle" and "The Girl on the Train," abuse itself isn't the dramatic focal point ― the identity of the abuser is.
But is not only the abuse itself that needs to be addressed.
For many, the abuse itself may have involved being forced or coerced into drug taking or criminal activity.
The sad truth is that the ordeal of going through the courts is potentially more damaging than the abuse itself.
The show uses the grandiosity and symbolic power of superhero stories to articulate truths about surviving abuse, and about the nature of abuse itself--including how people become abusers.
But in Ireland, the history of church interference in the political and judicial system has been so dreadful that the state has fought back; it has now taken an unchallenged lead in investigating both child-abuse itself and the way in which perpetrators were protected.
Vogel also pointed out that, on the principle of complementarity, the ICC prosecutors would have to demonstrate that the US was unwilling or unable to prosecute the abuses itself.
The situation with Grameen Bank, however, should not be characterized as 'Half the Sky' abusing itself, as the esteemed Nicholas Kristof suggests in his article, but as an attempt by one who wields the power to keep it at any cost (even if it means irrevocably harming other women) by diminishing the role of her perceived opponent.
Although it feels instinctively uncomfortable, these cases do not require a "special" response: existing child protection tools can be used, as the abuse manifests itself within the four recognised categories: physical, sexual, emotional and neglect.
