"mental violence" is correct English and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of psychological or emotional abuse, such as a threat to hurt someone's mental health. For example: "She was a victim of mental violence, struggling with the emotional trauma of her abuser's words."
And the mental violence is positively gory.
Around that time he also experienced the "mental violence" of depression for the first time.
No adult or child should be trapped in a household where one member uses physical or mental violence against one or more of the others.
Article 19 of the convention on the rights of the child commits states to protect children from physical and mental violence and injury.
The law defines mental violence as "repeated acts that could be constituted by words," including insults or repeated text messages that "degrade one's quality of life and cause a change to one's mental or physical state".
Children should be protected from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse while in the care of any other person that has the care of the children.
The two academics compare levels of mental illness, violence, teenage pregnancy and other social problems across various rich countries.
Attendees heard Darwinian takes on lust, love, infidelity, status-seeking, mental illness, violence, patriotism, politics, economics and religion, as well as keynote addresses from such luminaries as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker.
Physical abuse, mental illness, violence, environmental threats, and the burdens of family economic hardship.
Here are five ways to have a more productive conversation about the complex interplay between mental health, violence and tragedies such as this one.
Although we adjusted for most recognized correlates of poor maternal mental health, violence and low birth-weight, the possibility of residual confounding cannot be excluded.
