Harmonious social living occurs when people get what they want without stopping others from getting what they want.

A Channel 4 documentary about Marilyn Manson features a number of women alleging he subjected them to physical, sexual and psychological abuse. (Getty Images) A three-part documentary about Marilyn ...

I’ve heard women describe years of psychological torture. Partners who controlled what they wore, who they spoke to, how they spent every penny. Men who monitored phones, isolated them from family and ...

It often begins with controlling behaviour creating fear, intimidation and isolation. Australia's domestic violence scourge has already claimed the lives of 18 women and several children this year. At ...

A campaigner and survivor of domestic abuse has issued a checklist of signs to help identify somebody who is experiencing coercive control. Samantha Billingham, founder of UK-based organisation ...

-Among people who experienced coercive control, close to 42.9 % also report physical violence — meaning controlling behavior often precedes or accompanies more overt assault (according to PMC).

Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

James Saxon, 29, jailed for over two years at Manchester Crown Court for coercive control, assault, and weapon offences in Stockport.