How the DARVO (Deny Attack Reverse Victim and Offender) tactic shows up in marriage and other types of relationships.
Coercive Control
Coercive control is an ongoing pattern of behavior used by one person to harm, punish, frighten, or threaten another person. It is considered the most dangerous and malevolent form of intimate partner and family violence as it is a form of psychological torture. It is the foundational strategy used to accomplish the subjugation, oppression, and exploitation of one person by another.
Signs of coercive control include:
– Monitoring your time
– Taking control of your daily life
– Devaluation
– Obstruction of Employment
– Financial abuse
– Criminal damage
– Isolation
– Rules and Regulations
– Deprivation of Basic Needs
– Monitoring Communication
– Threats
– Sexual Assault
It was first criminalized in the UK in 2015. To learn what other countries and states have laws against it, log onto The Coercive and Controlling Legislation Global Database, which we developed in 2020 to monitor legislative updates.
Heal through connection this holiday season. Join our supportive Zoom event for narcissistic abuse survivors navigating family estrangement.
Every ten minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman or girl is killed by an intimate partner or family member.
Thalia Graves alleges she was gang raped by Sean “Diddy” Combs and his bodyguard Joseph “Big Joe” Sherman.
Reflections on the role of attachment disorders in addiction as well as family- and intimate partner violence.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month raises awareness, supports survivors, and promotes prevention. Learn its history, significance, and ways to help.
Conversations about domestic abuse are often focused on what’s visible—physical violence, bruises, the tangible evidence of harm. However, physical violence is an instrument used to enforce regimes of coercive control in which victim-survivors are carefully groomed from subjugation using a pattern of psycho-emotional manipulation called coercive control. Over time, the cumulative effects of this type of abuse lead to the…
Gene Deal backs Al B Sure! and carefully words his belief that Sean “Diddy” Combs killed Kim Porter in an act of femicide.
Sean Combs denied bail on sex trafficking, racketeering, and coercive control. He remains in custody at MDC Brooklyn.
Are you experiencing abuse after a separation? Learn about your rights and where to find help during Post-Separation Abuse Awareness Week.