Decoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma Katz

Decoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma Katz

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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
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She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men.
The scale of the risk means we need to stop blaming women for "ignoring red flags" when men turn out to be controlling and abusive partners
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"But She Seemed So Happy!" Coercive Control and the Dangerous Image of the Perfect Couple
9 reasons why victims-survivors might look joyful when they're not
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"She's Not Innocent Either." Actually, Yes She Is Innocent.
Why we need to develop a better understanding of domestic violence and coercive control victims-survivors who fight back against their abusers
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Abusive Men and Sex: Coercive Control and Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion
Why coercive control makes a consensual sex life impossible
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5 Ways That Domestic Violence and Coercive Control Victim-Survivor Moms Are Great Mothers
They make great efforts to look after their children's welfare and well-being
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He Hurts Her Body in a Thousand Ways Without Laying a Hand on Her
We need to expand our view of what counts as physical violence
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10 Reasons Why a Coercively Controlling Man is an Unfit Father
Men who perpetrate domestic abuse against a child's mother are, in fact, grossly inadequate, unfit fathers
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Why Abusive Men DON'T Love Their Children
We need to think the unthinkable and use a better concept of love to judge fathers who are perpetrators of abuse
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The REASON BEHIND Abusive Men's Regime of Control
Why abuse is functional and practical for the male abuser of women and children
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The Deepening Deliberate Destructiveness of Coercive Control
Coercive control as a system of harm: the 1st anniversary of "Decoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma Katz"
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The Myth That Victims-Survivors Are Crazy and Unstable People
Explaining Coercive Control to People Who Don't Quite Get It: A Series. Part 3.
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