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Because they do not understand coercive<br />
control, many police officers, lawyers,<br />
judges, advocates and therapists roll their<br />
eyes and blame abused women rather than<br />
offering them concrete help and protection.<br />
Professional training programs should<br />
include material on coercive control as a<br />
required part of their coursework. And we<br />
need to educate children and teens about<br />
healthy relationships that involve the joining<br />
of two free people.<br />
Teaching them about breakups is important,<br />
too. "Yes, some day you will probably be in a<br />
relationship where your heart will feel like it is<br />
breaking and you will survive."<br />
Some shelters and domestic violence<br />
agencies have begun buying it by the case--<br />
it is quite inexpensive and readable<br />
compared to other books. I want to do<br />
whatever I can to get the word out about CC,<br />
and I so appreciate the work of <strong>CCChat</strong><br />
<strong>Magazine</strong> in this regard!<br />
Q: Is there a message you’d like to share<br />
for 2018?<br />
With the power of the #MeToo movement,<br />
maybe this will be the year when significant<br />
changes occur in terms of women's status in<br />
the working world and the home. I hope we<br />
will make progress in terms of sexual<br />
violence.<br />
So my message is: "Stay strong, speak up,<br />
and reach out to someone who is isolated by<br />
their partner."<br />
“My message is: "Stay strong, speak up, and reach out to<br />
someone who is isolated by their partner." ”<br />
Lisa Aronson-Fontes, PhD<br />
Perhaps this could help stave off the oftenfatal<br />
violence that some abusers inflict when<br />
they fear the end of a relationship will be<br />
unbearable.<br />
Q: Is there going to be a follow up book to<br />
Invisible Chains?<br />
Invisible Chains was just published in<br />
Japanese. I am translating it into Spanish<br />
and looking for a Spanish language<br />
publisher.<br />
I am working on articles on coercive control<br />
in Urdu and Farsi. I would love to see<br />
information about coercive control reach the<br />
four corners of the earth because although<br />
there are variations across cultures, I have<br />
yet to see a culture where a certain number<br />
of women (and some men) were not being<br />
abusively controlled by their partners.<br />
I am open to doing another book on coercive<br />
control--I have some ideas. But first, I'd like<br />
to see Invisible Chains get into the hands of<br />
more readers.<br />
Further information:<br />
www.lisafontes.com<br />
More information on:<br />
Dirty John<br />
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/<br />
la-me-ln-coercivecontrol-20171011-story.html<br />
"The Vegan Fugitive"<br />
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/<br />
03/sarma-melngailis-vegan-fugitivedefense<br />
Please copy and paste the above links<br />
into your browser.<br />
2018 is the Year For Making The Invisible Visible
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