Decoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma Katz

Abusive Fathers Use These 8 Destructive Strategies To Damage Mother–Child Relationships. Here's How To Fight Back.

Attacking mother-child relationships is a damaging tactic of coercive control and domestic violence that urgently needs to be recognized.

19 hrs ago • Dr Emma Katz

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July 2026

Explaining Coercive Control to People Who Don't Quite Get It

Busting the myth that incidents of physical violence are the most important aspect of domestic violence and abuse

Jul 5 • Dr Emma Katz

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June 2026

How Coercively Controlling Men Distort Reality, and How This Entraps Children and Women

What we need to know to help children and women fully escape from coercive control

Jun 13 • Dr Emma Katz

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May 2026

Banishing Guilt and Blame: Why It's Not Survivor Mothers' Fault That Their Children Grew Up with Domestic Abuse

This is a complex issue, but mothers don't deserve a lot of the guilt that weighs them down. Let me tell you more...

May 13 • Dr Emma Katz

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April 2026

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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