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Resources
Resources
Links to Helpful Sites
Recommended Reading
- When Love Goes Wrong: What to Do When You Can’t Do Anything Right by Ann Jones and Susan Schechter
- Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie
- I Can’t Get over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis
- Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
- The Emotionally Abused Woman: Overcoming Destructive Patterns and Reclaiming Yourself by Beverly Engel
- The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life by Albert Ellis and Marcia Grad Powers
- Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You by Patricia Evans
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Patricia Evans
- Encouragements for the Emotionally Abused Woman: Wisdom and Hope for Women At Any Stage of Emotional Abuse Recovery by Beverly Engel
- The Courage to Heal – Third Edition – Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin De Becker
- When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships by Neil Jacobson and John Gottman
- The Abusive Personality, Second Edition: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships by Donald G. Dutton
- When Violence Begins at Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Ending Domestic Abuse by K. J. Wilson
- Domestic Violence Sourcebook by Dawn Bradley Berry
- Surviving Domestic Violence: Voices of Women Who Broke Free by Elaine Weiss
- Free Yourself From an Abusive Relationship by Richard Kraus and Andrea Lissette
- The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing by Beverly Engel
- Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman
- It’s My Life Now: Starting Over After An Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence, Second Edition by Meg Kennedy Dugan and Roger R. Hock