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Emotional and Psychological Abuse

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On our Forms of Abuse page, we overhauled the Emotional and Psychological Abuse section to make the content more useful. We expanded the information in this section and organized it into three new subsections: Basic information, Forms of emotional and psychological abuse, and Ending the abuse. Within these subsections, we revised six existing questions and added the following eight questions:

These new questions address topics that WomensLaw Email Hotline users have asked about. Spanish translation coming soon!   

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On our Forms of Abuse page, we overhauled the Emotional and Psychological Abuse section to make the content more useful. We expanded the information in this section and organized it into three new subsections: Basic information, Forms of emotional and psychological abuse, and Ending the abuse. Within these subsections, we revised six existing questions and added eight new questions. The new questions address topics that WomensLaw Email Hotline users have asked about, including narcissism and abuse, coercive control, using children and others to cause harm, and the legal options for addressing emotional and psychological abuse. Spanish translation coming soon!