Dr Emma Katz
dremmakatz.bsky.social
Dr Emma Katz
@dremmakatz.bsky.social
A world-leading coercive control expert. Academic researching domestic violence. http://linktr.ee/dremmakatz In-demand speaker. Author. Find me on Substack. http://dremmakatz.substack.com
Here's Why A Victim-Survivor Would Send Loving Texts To Their Abuser

I went on NewsNation Live to help make sense of Cassie Ventura’s brave witness testimony at the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs

I explained how #coercivecontrol invalidates consent

Read/watch here: open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka...
May 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Victims-survivors are often disbelieved for seeming happy during a time when they later say their partner was abusive.

These disbelieving reactions would be different if people more fully understood what coercive control is and how it works.

Read my new article: dremmakatz.substack.com/p/9-r…
April 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Victim-survivor mothers are often told to 'get over' the abuse post-separation, 'move on', and 'be nice' when, in fact, the perpetrator is still actively abusing them and their children.

It is deeply unfair and unjust.

Read my new article: dremmakatz.substack.com/p/how…
April 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (TDVAM).

16% of teen girls with older boyfriends experience severe physical violence from their boyfriend, compared to 6% of teen girls with a same age boyfriend.
February 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We know that abusive fathers attack and undermine mother-child relationships.

But what influences the amount of damage caused to mother-child relationships when the father is a coercive controller?

And what does #domesticviolence have to do with this?

dremmakatz.substack.com/p/how…
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Can Anything Persuade Abusive Men to Give Up Coercive Control?

Read my new Substack article dremmakatz.substack.com/p/abusive-me...

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#domesticviolence #coercivecontrol
December 3, 2024 at 12:16 PM
For coercive control and domestic violence and abuse awareness and support

#domesticviolence #domesticabuse #coercivecontrol
November 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM
"A 2023 study that tested readers’ responses to news reports found that when fatal abuse was described as a “love killing” as opposed to “murder”, male readers perceived the perpetrator to be a loving person and were more likely to blame the victim."
July 14, 2024 at 4:26 PM
10 Reasons Why a Coercively Controlling Man is an Unfit Father

Men who perpetrate domestic abuse against a child's mother are, in fact, highly unfit fathers

Read my latest article - available now and free for all readers.

Link: open.substack.com/pu...

July 8, 2024 at 1:03 PM
My latest blog has arrived! Domestically Abusive Men Describe WHY They Criticize Women's Mothering: Abusers explain their reasons for exploiting what it means to be a good mother, in their own words

Link: open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka...
August 23, 2023 at 3:48 PM
My latest blog has arrived: Why Domestic Violence and Abuse Victims & Survivors Deserve All Our Respect & Support https://open.substack.com/pub/dremmakatz/p/why-domestic-violence-and-abuse-victims?r=1uokmo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
August 1, 2023 at 7:41 PM