COMPLEX MULTILAYERED ABUSECMA FrameworkA Survivor-Led Framework for Understanding
How Multilayered Abuse Structures Persist, Adapt, and Resist InterventionProposed by Tatsuki Nakamura

Survivor-Led Framework

CMA

Complex Multilayered Abuse

What is CMA?

CMA is a structural framework that explains how abuse persists through interacting layers.

5 Layers

1. Isolation & Information Blockade

2. Dependency Fixation

3. Normalization & Gaslighting

4. Institutional Non-Response

5. Somatic / Memory Fragmentation

Comparative Models

Focus: symptoms & regulation

Limit: lacks structural persistence model

CMA gap: moves from symptoms → system

Focus: developmental impact

Limit: weak social/institution layer

CMA gap: adds structural ecology

Focus: count of adverse events

Limit: no interaction dynamics

CMA gap: replaces count with layered system

Focus: multiple victimization exposure

Limit: no causal structure

CMA gap: explains why overlap persists

Focus: structural persistence of abuse

Core: 5 interacting layers

Type: non-diagnostic structural model

Publication

Zenodo Preprint (2026)