Survivors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discrimination is the secret weapon in coercive controllers' arsenals

Aug 10, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

"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

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

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

May 12, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

"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

Apr 6, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

How Domestically Abusive Men Continue to Harm Mother–Child Relationships Post-Separation

The tactics used by perpetrating fathers to stop mothers and their children from rebuilding their bonds with each other

Mar 15, 2025 • Dr Emma Katz

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