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You’ll find that gaslighting has crept into every layer of society—romantic relationships, office teams, family dynamics, or even political institutions. Gaslighters can twist the facts and distract you from reality, making you question whether you are to blame or not. The long-term effects of gaslighting can leave you feeling isolated, depressed, and confused about what’s true and what’s not. And while the gaslighter will shrug all responsibility, you will have to endure an emotional storm. With this book, you can break the cycle, free yourself, and reclaim your life!

Tired of feeling like someone else is quietly rewriting your identity, one decision at a time? Do you sense the manipulation, but still feel trapped in the cycle - mentally, emotionally, or even physically? Are you ready to stop surviving their control and finally start living as the author of your own story again? Every day, countless people find themselves trapped in the subtle, insidious control of narcissists and manipulators.

Libérate del abuso narcisista y recupera tu libertad. ¿Estás atrapado en una relación donde tu valor está definido por el control de otra persona? ¿Te la pasas dudando de ti mismo, preguntándote si estás exagerando por sentirte herido por el comportamiento de tu pareja?

The heartbreaking true story of a young, troubled mother who needed help. The sixteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. It is the first time Laura has been out since the birth of her baby when Cathy sees her in the school playground. A joyful occasion but Cathy has the feeling something is...

Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters, shows how "domestic violence" is neither primarily domestic nor necessarily violent, but a pattern of controlling behaviors more akin to terrorism and hostage-taking. Drawing on court records, interviews, and FBI statistics, Stark details coercive strategies that men use to deny women their very personhood, from "beeper games" to food logs to micromanaging dress, speech, sexual activity, and work.

Coercive control will see an abuser dominate their victim's life, from the food they eat, the people they see, the places they can go, and the things they can say. A controlling partner, through fear and intimidation, will seek to ensure their victim is subdued, to the point of accepting any and all abuse that's fired their way.

Coercive control is a form of domestic violence experienced by millions of children. It involves a perpetrator using a range of tactics to intimidate, humiliate, degrade, exploit, isolate, and control a partner or family member. Some coercive control perpetrators use violence, others do not. Drawing on interviews with children and mothers who have experienced coercive control-based domestic violence, this book sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs.

Libérate de las cadenas invisibles de la manipulación y recupera el control de tu mente, emociones y vida. ¿Cansado de cuestionar tu propia realidad después de cada discusión? ¿Has sentido culpa por cosas que no hiciste o has pedido disculpas solo para mantener la paz? ¿Sientes que algo está mal en tu relación, pero no puedes explicar exactamente qué es? Para muchos, la manipulación no comienza con amenazas —empieza con amor, encanto y control sutil. Te dicen que estás exagerando, que eres demasiado sensible o incluso que estás loco.

Do you feel drained, anxious, or unsure of who you are after dealing with someone who never yells-but always controls? You're not overreacting. You may be dealing with a covert narcissist-the kind who hides behind charm, silence, and subtle manipulation. The Silent Narcissist is your essential guide to spotting the quietest form of emotional abuse and reclaiming your power. Unlike loud, obvious narcissists, covert ones erode your confidence with passive-aggressive digs, gaslighting, guilt-tripping, and emotional withdrawal-leaving you confused and blaming yourself.

If you want to keep a secret, put it on Facebook! What would you do if you found out that the man you married had a secret life that culminated in the ultimate betrayal? Yve Gibney tells the real-life story from their love-at-first-sight chance encounter while working as expats in Nigeria to the gradual realization that her husband of 19 years, Maurice Gibney, was actually full of deceit, manipulation, and coercive control and that their marriage had been a lie from the moment they had met.

Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, isolation, and subordination of children. The book provides a working model of the coercive control of children and illustrates its dynamics and consequences with dramatic cases drawn from the headlines and Dr. Stark's forensic practice.

You didn’t imagine it. The gaslighting, the manipulation, the twisted blame games—They broke you. But you’re not broken. This isn’t therapy fluff. This is the raw truth, forged in hell and told by someone who’s walked through it. You gave everything—And they still made you feel like not enough. Now? You're done playing nice. You're done chasing apologies that never come. This audiobook isn’t just healing. It’s a weapon.

This a purposefully short book that contains powerful messages. It is like having a good and genuine friend by your side. Written by a therapist with many, many years of practical experience in the resolution of problems such as these, what this book does is to turn sufferers into survivors and then those survivors into happy and fulfilled regular people. It shows how that wonderful, but fake, love affair is all about the narcissist and not you. They can only love themselves. That is narcissism, and it is a personality disorder.

Offering a personal and pastoral mode of support for people affected by domestic violence, Out of Control helps you understand and combat the damage done by abuse.

Almost every person will suffer some form of manipulative behavior at some stage in their life, it's unavoidable. Whether it's an overt form of intimidation and bullying in the workplace or more subtle covert manipulation within a relationship. It's much more prevalent than you think. But most people aren't equipped with the right observation strategies to pick-up on it, or the right mental make-up to deal with it....

Love is supposed to be fulfilling for all the parties involved. But sometimes, it isn’t. One party may be getting the short end of the stick. This person may be you. Do you have a part of you that sees/feels something is wrong about your relationship but can’t exactly put a finger on it? Do you often have to justify your relationship to others, including yourself?

Aprende a detectar, comprender y actuar frente a uno de los patrones más dañinos y difíciles de identificar en las relaciones abusivas.

If You’ve Ever Felt Controlled, Gaslit, or Powerless in a Conversation… This book is for you! Do you constantly find yourself on the losing side of influence? Ever walked away from a conversation feeling manipulated but couldn’t prove it? Do you feel like others are pulling the strings in your relationships, career, or social life… and you can’t figure out how to fight back? Most people are completely blind to the psychological tactics being used against them every single day—by narcissists, salespeople, partners, bosses, and even “friends”.

This is a two-book collection of previously released books by Lauren Kozlowski, Trauma Bonding and Coercive Control.

Cada día, innumerables personas quedan atrapadas en el control sutil e insidioso de narcisistas y manipuladores. Tal vez sea una pareja, un padre, un compañero de trabajo o incluso un amigo que constantemente cambia las reglas de la realidad, dejándote confundida, agotada y dudando de tu propio valor. O tal vez has terminado creyendo que su manipulación es simplemente “así son las cosas”, aunque en el fondo sabes que no está bien.