"I'm sat here as living proof you will be able to stand again," says one survivor.

The "culture of affluence" creates special challenges for wealthy victims of intimate partner abuse. We need to understand ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lisa Fontes, an expert in coercive control and sexual violence, about Gisèle Pelicot's case and the effects of chemical submission.

It has been 10 years since coercive control became a criminal offence in England and Wales, but it can still be hard to identify.

Ferguson said offenders who would end up killing their partners, like Gerard Baden-Clay, would try to mask their culpability. “We know that the types of behaviours that those perpetrators use are ...

Domestic abuse is insidious, with a few warning signs within a new relationship overlooked in that hazy, rose-tinted euphoric stage of falling in love.

The domestic violence field lost an important advocate with the passing of Andrew Cicchetti, Ph.D., in November 2024. Below are some of his ideas, with quotes taken from our personal correspondence, ...

Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If something was not to his liking ...

42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control, according to new research released this week. The study, published in Wiley Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly ...