Just over a dozen people were convicted of controlling and coercive behaviour towards their partner in Merseyside last year. The low numbers come despite hundreds of incidents being reported to police ...

Having a controlling person in your life can be difficult to navigate and even more challenging if that person is your partner. Controlling tendencies may not always be so obvious on a day-to-day ...

If you’ve been online much over the last few weeks, you may have seen the words “coercive control,” “boundaries,” and “therapy speak” doing the rounds. The conversation was instigated by Jonah Hill’s ...

In May 2007, my cherished childhood friend, Shelby, was murdered by her coercively controlling, abusive, estranged husband. The heinous act was all premeditated. Weeks after she finally left him, ...

Coercive and controlling behaviour is a feature of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, issues that have risen to the top of the social work agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and ...

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