Most of us are aware of overt and explicit cases of verbal abuse. After a relaxing dinner at your local Italian restaurant, you hear a middle-aged man in the parking lot yell at his female middle-aged ...

When we think about domestic and family violence, we often imagine overt harm. We generally think of raised voices, a threatening stance, and physical harm. Yet many damaging forms of abuse are ...

When you hear the word "abuse," some form of physical abuse, verbal abuse or sexual abuse may come to mind. But people may not think about emotional abuse. This kind of abuse can be more subtle to ...

Novelist Spearing (Hartfords) shares a heartrending account of her recovery from religious trauma. Raised in a patriarchal evangelical Christianity that viewed men as heads of the home, mothers as ...