COERCIVE CONTROL: NO BROKEN BONES BUT VIOLENCE, NEVERTHELESS

3 Women 3 Ways

COERCIVE CONTROL: NO BROKEN BONES BUT VIOLENCE, NEVERTHELESS Isolation, entrapment, stalking, mind games, withholding, degrading…all are the strategies and the weapons of the perpetrator in debilitating and controlling relationships. The coercive control the abuser uses can create as much damage and victimization as the physical assaults often experienced in domestic violence. Lisa Aronson Fontes PhD is a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is published in PsychologyToday.com and DomesticShelters.org. She is the author of four popular books including one on coercive control: “Invisible Chains, Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship.” Join us as she describes the types of coercive control, the severity and frequency of its use, and why abusers inflict this type of violence on victims. Airing for the first time, Saturday, March 6, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.