Emma [Katz] is the world’s leading academic expert on how coercive control harms children and mother-child relationships, and how these harms can be overcome.
Emma’s approach to coercive control is strongly anti-victim blaming. Her work is based on an understanding that victims and survivors are ordinary people who were unjustly harmed.
While recognising the full extent of the harm that abusers cause and its devastating impacts, Emma’s work values, appreciates and seeks to reinforce victims’ and survivors’ many strengths. It understands that children and young people who have a coercively controlling parent are not just witnesses. Children and young people should be supported as co-victims and co-survivors.
—from Emma’s website
Listen to Emma speaking about How Coercive Control Harms Child Safety and Wellbeing.
Emma’s book Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives [Affiliate link] (Oxford University Press, 2022) has been praised by many secular professionals who work in the domestic abuse field. I have seen no evidence yet that Christians are cottoning on. That’s typical of Christendom. In my observation, Christian “experts” in domestic abuse, especially those in America, are often way behind where the cutting-edge secular experts are. The ground-breaking insights in Emma’s book are helping professionals and victims-survivors to enhance their levels of understanding of the harms caused by perpetrators of coercive control, and to learn about effective ways of tackling this form of abuse.
To find more interviews and blogs by Emma Katz, go to Dr Emma Katz: Podcasts. I have subscribed to Emma’s substack (blog) for some time, and I can assure you that her articles about coercive control are spot on.
Since I first came across Emma on Twitter (I refuse to use the name that Elon gave that platform) Emma has displayed a consistent pattern of respectfully responding to survivors who reply to her tweets.
Note: I do not endorse all the interviews on the Partnered With A Survivor podcast, but their interview with Emma Katz is good. The couple who run the Partnered With A Survivor podcast also run the Safe & Together Institute, and, for me, that is an off-putting title for an institute that addresses interpersonal abuse.
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From Barb’s original post (from the quote Barb quoted from Dr. Emma Katz’ website):
(The name “Katz” in brackets is in Barb’s original post. The phrase “writes and blogs” in brackets was added by me.)
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Me being me, I would’ve added an Oxford comma after the word “appreciates”. 😊
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Barb,
I’m hoping you read this…. 😊 ….and I’m so sorry for using the blog to contact you….I’ve no other way to let you know about a possible email issue. And perhaps(?) it’s affecting other people who might be trying to contact you….
I tried replying to your email (and sending a different email to you) yesterday (Sunday, November 12, my time), as well as today (Monday, November 13, my time), and each time I’ve gotten the error message:
I’ve sent two emails within North America (omitting details for my safety and protection), and the emails have gone though — they’ve not generated any error messages.
I’ve received your emails….is it possible some parts of Australia are having some kinds of internet issues?
Hopefully I’ve not omitted anything….and, once again, I’m so sorry for using the blog to contact you….I just wanted to let you know I’d received your emails and had tried replying….
Writing from my version of the “pits of hell”….
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Oh dear. It’s probably not a general Aussie problem. I think it’s likely to be an issue just for me, and I’ll have to spend most of today trying to fix it.
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I’m sure by now everyone has heard it was a general Aussie problem. At least it was for half the population.
As someone who had their mobile, landline and internet all go down at a time when my ex is just about to be greatly triggered to seek revenge (about to be arrested imminently but will get bail), it was terrifying the 12 hours without any way to contact police as I couldn’t even contact 000.
I wonder how many other victims went through the same fear.
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Hi AutisticDVSurvivor,
For your safety and protection, I changed your screen name to the screen name you used most recently on the blog. 😊 And thank you for letting us know that at least some of the Australian population might’ve had their mobile, landline and / or internet go down. 😊
I’m so sorry that your mobile, landline, and internet all went down at the same time — especially given the circumstances with your ex….that must’ve truly awful.
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