Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out, Patricia Evans
Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out, Patricia Evans
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Verbal Abuse Survivors Speak Out
On Relationship and Recovery

Author: Patricia Evans

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2013


Synopsis

If your partner: seems irritated or angry at you several times a week, denies being angry when he clearly is, does not work with you to resolve important issues, rarely or never seems to share thoughts or plans with you, or tells you that he has no idea what you’re talking about when you try to discuss important problems…you need this book.Verbal Abuse: Survivors Speak Out outlines solutions to abusive relationships, tells victims where to find shelters and support groups, and analyzes why many therapists misdiagnose problems in violent relationships.

About Patricia Evans

Patricia Evans has worked extensively in counseling and recovery settings with battered women. After her first book, The Verbally Abusive Relationship, was published, she received hundreds of letters from verbal abuse survivors around the world. Those letters form the basis of this book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mitch on March 14, 2013

This was one of the most difficult books top take of the shelf at the bookstore. I am a man for pete sake. How could I acknowledge "verbal" abuse. All I can say it was one of the best purchases I ever made and one of the first self help books I read cover to cover. I soon discovered that my inner vo......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 27, 2014

I was very fortunate to find this book within weeks of leaving an abusive relationship, in the early 1990's, shortly after it was published. I don't know what made me pick the book up off the shelf, because I did not believe verbal abuse was even a real "thing". Then I opened this book and read an e......more

Goodreads review by Erin on December 30, 2019

Eye-opening. Validating. Convicting. Verbal abuse is not what you think.......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on May 15, 2023

It took me a long time to read this. I witnessed a family member being verbally abused, it was shocking and scary. I told several friends about my reaction and the atmosphere of anger and violence. One of them gave me this book. She is a retired psych nurse. I wished at times for there to be less sn......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 02, 2022

This is the third Evans book I have read. In this one, she gives the survivors of verbal abuse a voice.......more