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Dr Katz’s Popular Articles on Coercive Control

"Your calm, confident voice has been a real source of support to hold onto."
"It really was a pivotal moment when I discovered your work, and you have helped me feel normal and okay when I've been spinning out more times than I can remember."
"I have read and written about coercive control extensively - but never before have I felt so understood and validated"
"I was living a nightmare that I didn’t think anyone understood until I found your work. Thank you for all you do!"
“Your work is oh so important, and I am so glad that I found you. I am loving how your posts are ramping up your voice and deconstructing serious misconceptions around domestic abuse."
“Thank you, more than you can imagine. You are truly incredible, the way you explain everything so clearly really helps to undo some of the damage caused. Every judge and police officer in the country should be made to read your articles.”
“Thanks Dr. Katz. As always, your articles are so well articulated and bursting with important information. I really appreciate your work.”
"Dr. Emma Katz writes it true. Her articles are spot-on and really get down to the core of abuse: the why, the how, the effects. Everything she writes is a 'must-read'.”
"I support your writing because you are brilliant! I work in the violence against women sector as family court support and often feel like I wish I could shout your words from the rooftops (at the very least, in the courtrooms). Thank you for your work and your voice."
"Your work is invaluable to survivors and victims. We are a 'by and for' survivor-led organisation running on next to nothing. We believe in fairer family courts and a fairer criminal justice system. Your work helps us support each other and campaign for better services."
"Your writing helps me understand my sister’s abusive relationship with her partner, and why she is now a shell of her former self. Thank you for bringing clarity to what is happening in the mind of her partner and the end goal of his actions. "
"You put evidence and language to something that often feels so intangible and difficult to explain"
"I'm in a coercive control relationship and trying to get out. These posts are so helpful."
"As a survivor of coercive control, it is so powerful to see someone shedding light on exactly what I experienced."
"You validate the experience of coercion, restoring life to our exhausted bodies. Your work gathers truth, and a reminder that we aren’t crazy, and we are not alone. Thank you"
"Thank you for this very important article. You have been very influential in my life and in the lives of so many others when it comes to understanding coercive control and abuse"
"This is one of the most thought-provoking and important articles from our sector this year. Thank you, Dr Emma Katz, for your vital work, written with so much care and love for survivors."
"Dr. Katz tells it like it is. She knows the ins and outs of coercive control and domestic violence, and her writing is informed and full of clarifying explanations and anecdotes. If the general public could read more of Katz's work, we might soon find we'd cured our societies of this systemic violence against women."
"This is incredibly informative, insightful, powerful, and NECESSARY..."
"I appreciate your work as it not only deepens my understanding but also sparks thoughtful questions that challenge and inspire me to grow in my practice. Your insights encourage me to look at things from different angles, pushing me to explore new possibilities and refine my approach."
"I subscribed to your Substack because I just HAD to have the consistent validation!!"
"Every time I read your articles, I have another way to help people get it. I am BEYOND grateful for your work!!"
"I support your work because it is validating me and helping me decode my own experience and giving me strength to navigate my way through this."
"Your posts are so powerful and spot on. I love how they each stand on their own, yet your thoroughness and consistency of message remain."
"The more we speak about it the less alone and blameworthy we can feel. Your research and reporting are crucial."
"I've never been validated in any way before and had come to believe that I am the terrible mother he says I am, and the courts always believe him. Thank you for your work. It changed my life."
"I am living the coercive control experience right now and find it difficult to talk to people in my life about issues. Your writing is like talking to a friend! So validating and encouraging!"
'Dr. Emma Katz writes with huge insight and wisdom. Read her, follow her.'
'Your work is essential for a mother trying to cope and escape coercive control.'
'I support your work and expertise because I feel validated, seen, and supported. In learning more about your research, I hope to protect my daughter.'
"I am always excited to read your posts when they come out. They are always so informative, well written and validating."
"Brilliant - every piece you write is just so tremendously necessary."
"Just when I think I've read and seen and heard everything about coercive control, and understand what I endured, along comes another one of Dr. Katz's excellent articles...and now I'm sitting in my laundry room, weeping and feeling so grateful to have my experience summed up so accurately yet again."
"After listening to your podcasts I know that you are an open, down-to-earth and kind person, and that you never blame the victim. I'd like to add that your subscription fee is moderate. Like your writing, it is accessible to almost everyone."
"Currently divorcing a man who has led a full on double/triple life for at least 20 years. I've been manipulated and exploited for so long I need recalibration to determine normalcy, validation that I'm not crazy, and language to defend myself through the divorce process."
"I am a 25 year old man that experienced extreme abuse from my biological father almost my entire life until I escaped his abuse just earlier this year and all if this information is so new and amazing and I just wanted to say thank you for making this information so cheap and accessible."
"I so love your empowering writing. Thank you Emma, you have done so much for me."
"After reading this, I realized I’m an excellent mother… and I so deeply appreciate you explaining it to me. I’m in tears. Even the most well intentioned, loving family members don’t fully understand it the way you do."
"Your work is exceptional and vital."
"Wow, Emma. I feel like I’ve had a really good talking to as to why things are not my fault. I love it, thank you!"
"I've been helped so much by your work and I've even begun sharing it with my daughter who has recently blocked her dad."
"It makes such a difference to have your clarity and your frameworks to understand such a complex experience."

Podcasts

The Science of Psychotherapy
Emma Katz on coercive control in domestic violence
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BBC Appearances

Newspaper & Magazine Features

Associate professor on parents exposed to violence: Municipalities think too black and white
MPs pass the assisted suicide bill – and betray disabled communities in the process

Why would anyone marry a murderer?

200 women ‘drugged by ‘New Pelicot’ and forced to wet themselves in public’

‘My abusive ex convinced the courts to give him custody of our daughter’

Combs was acquitted on coercive control
Diddy verdict raises questions over domestic abuse, power and coercion
Beyond bruises: Coercive control in intimate partner violence

Mutual abuse is not a thing, so why are people using it to discredit Keke Palmer?

‘A life sentence’: No escape from abusive relationships when navigating family court system, say victims

‘If England lost, I knew dad would be violent’: Football’s child domestic abuse problem

Angelina Jolie is the latest woman to be compared to Amber Heard by social media creators chasing celebrity scandal

‘We Condemn the Public Shaming of Amber Heard’: 130 Women’s Rights Signatories Sign Open Letter

Read Dr Emma Katz's research articles on post-separation abuse