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Abusive Partners Coercive Control Domestic violence comprises a range of behaviors beyond physical and emotional abuse. Abusers often use violence,…

BY ABBY ELLIN | JULY 11, 2016 12:45 PM | Lisa Fontes’s ex-boyfriend never punched her, or pulled her hair. But…

Lisa Aronson Fontes Ph.D. | Invisible Chains | February 17, 2017 Co authored with Evan Stark, PhD., author of Coercive Control: How Men…

By Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD | 06/10/2015 | As my marriage of two decades withered into a separation, my charming newly-divorced…

In coercive control abuse, you have a range of acts over time, a broad range of non-consensual and non-reciprocal tactics…

People subject to coercive control grow anxious and afraid. Coercive control strips away their independence, sense of self, and basic rights, such…

Evan Stark, a forensic social worker and an emeritus professor at Rutgers, is the author of a landmark book, “Coercive…

It’s not a simple matter either; using controlling or coercive behaviour is a deliberate act which reduces an individual’s space…

But in general, the abused are female and their tormenters, men. The abused are usually not outwardly passive. Many are…

By Lisa Aronson Fontes Ph.D. | July 10, 2016 | He takes her paycheck and she has to beg him…

By SOPHIE GODDARD | July 24, 2018 | Nearly three years ago, the government introduced a new domestic abuse offence of…

By Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD | 06/12/2015 | It takes a long time to recover from a relationship where you are…

We had a chance to interview Dr. Lisa Fontes, author of Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship, about…

This phrase encompasses the numerous ways in which abusive men exploit their female partners (financially, sexually, etc.); deprive them of…