Key points What feels like profound connection may actually be the start of hidden, destabilizing control. 12-step communities can unintentionally enable narcissistic abuse by misapplying recovery language. High-empathy individuals are especially vulnerable to their attunement being exploited. “The problem is,…[Continue Reading...]
I recently met up with one of my friends for coffee and a good chat session. When I sat down at the table, she pointed at her cup and exclaimed, “The barista totally gaslit me. Do you see how they…[Continue Reading...]
Older Australians are facing hidden and often unrecognised forms of coercive control, with new research showing that systems meant to protect them are sometimes being used to manipulate or isolate them instead. The findings, released to coincide with today’s UN…[Continue Reading...]
Most people have been told at some point that they’re being too sensitive, or reading too much into things. A speaker at Porthtowan’s first TEDx event reckons artificial intelligence could give them a way to show they were right all…[Continue Reading...]
For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW, Queensland and South Australia have now criminalised coercive control, other states and territories…[Continue Reading...]
For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW, Queensland and South Australia have now criminalised coercive control, other states and territories…[Continue Reading...]
Across Ireland and around the world, technology has quickly become one of the most powerful and insidious tools of control, harassment and intimidation wielded against women and girls. So, why haven't regulators and governments restricted them? She thought this only…[Continue Reading...]
In 1957, sociologist Albert Biderman described the tactics torturers use to weaken and terrify prisoners of war. Ann Jones, Susan Schechter and Evan Stark transferred these ideas to the field of domestic violence. They called this strategy coercive control. Coercive…[Continue Reading...]
Cult leaders should be prosecuted under the same laws as abusive spouses, MPs have said. Controlling or coercive behaviour in the home is a crime in the UK punishable by up to five years in prison. However, victims of cult…[Continue Reading...]
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A yearslong push by domestic violence advocates to criminalize coercive control is taking major step forward this week, with a state Senate panel ready for input on the issue. At 9 a.m. Wednesday, a Senate…[Continue Reading...]
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