Decoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma Katz

Coercively Controlling Fathers and the Hidden Threat They Pose to Children

What scientific research tells us

Apr 12 • Dr Emma Katz

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March 2026

Coercive Control: Myths and Hidden Truths

8 more things we get wrong about this devastating form of domestic abuse, and the truths that everyone should know

Mar 11 • Dr Emma Katz

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February 2026

5 Reasons Why Intelligent People Shouldn't Feel Embarrassed About Experiencing Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

Banishing victims'-survivors' feelings of shame and confusion

Feb 8 • Dr Emma Katz

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January 2026

How To Help a Child Who’s Experiencing Coercive Control

What to do when children are suffering the harmful impacts of perpetrators' actions

Jan 10 • Dr Emma Katz

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December 2025

Domestically Violent Men Describe the Benefits of Abusing Women and Children

This is how abusers describe the advantages they get, in their own words

Dec 7, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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November 2025

Coercive Control: Myths vs Truths

8 things we get wrong, and the truths that everyone should know about this devastating form of domestic abuse

Nov 8, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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October 2025

How Mothers and Children Resist Coercive Control

The everyday horrors, and the everyday ways that mothers and children fight back

Oct 4, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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September 2025

Make Sense of Coercive Control, by Dr Emma Katz

Here are my expert definitions and explanations, with quick, accessible answers to all the main questions about coercive control

Sep 19, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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August 2025

Talking To Children About A Father's Coercive Control

The dilemma of telling children what happened and that Dad is a perpetrator

Aug 17, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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Discrimination is the secret weapon in coercive controllers' arsenals

How Sexism, Ageism, Childism and More are Used by Coercive Control Perpetrators Against Victims-Survivors

Aug 10, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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July 2025

"It Crushed Me Inside": How Abusive Men Attack Your Sense of Who You Are

Why coercive control victims'-survivors' identities are undermined - and how they can recover

Jul 9, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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May 2025

Here's Why A Victim-Survivor Would Send Loving Texts To Their Abuser

I went on NewsNation Live to help make sense of Cassie Ventura’s brave witness testimony at the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs

May 18, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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