Women with Controlling Partners, Carol A. Lambert, MSW
Women with Controlling Partners, Carol A. Lambert, MSW
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Women with Controlling Partners
Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner

Author: Carol A. Lambert, MSW

Narrator: Tina Wolstencroft

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/22/2020


Synopsis

If you have a controlling partner, you aren't alone. Millions of women suffer psychological abuse at the hands of a spouse or intimate partner during some point in their lives, not fully seeing or knowing what is happening to them. Research shows that psychological abuse affects women's overall well-being more than physical abuse, is a bigger contributor to inducing fear, and can be a precursor to violence. To make matters worse, having a controlling partner often results in hidden injuries like anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, and low self-efficacy—feeling like you can't make a difference in your life. So, where can you turn for help?

Based on over a decade of clinical and domestic abuse research, Women with Controlling Partners will help you identify the coercive constraints that can be predictive of intimate partner abuse, recognize the harmful effects of psychological abuse on your mental and physical health, and gain the personal strength and power to break free. Using the author's three-stage recovery model, you'll be empowered to move out of denial, deconstruct what holds you psychologically captive, and take back your life.


About Carol A. Lambert, MSW

Carol A. Lambert, MSW, is a psychotherapist and domestic violence expert with three decades of clinical experience helping individuals and groups, and a career-long commitment to women's psychological health. Since 1993, she developed a unique approach and cofounded the Recovery Groups for Women with Controlling Partners that bring together insights from mental health, trauma recovery, and domestic violence. At McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School, she provides domestic violence training and consultation. Over the years, her expertise took her from educating volunteers in a domestic violence program affiliated with local police to providing training and consultation to the National Football League. In all her endeavors, she brings critical attention to psychological abuse and the major losses to women's mental and physical health. She's currently in private clinical practice in Belmont and Concord, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nadia

Extremely helpful resource. Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Eliza

Read as audiobook......more

Very informative and helpful for anyone with a current controlling relationship or someone still healing from the trauma of one.......more