Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts used by one person to harm, punish or frighten another person to secure psycho-emotional dominance.
Torture
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Coercive control is a sustained campaign of domination — not a single incident, not a difficult relationship, not ordinary conflict. It is one person’s systematic removal of another person’s autonomy, identity, and freedom. It happens in intimate partnerships, in families, in workplaces, and within institutions. It leaves no bruises. And until recently, the law had no name for it. This…