Publisher's Synopsis
Tangled Web of Words: A Breakthrough Guide to Conversational and Coercive Control in Relationships by Dr Torna Pitman is an essential resource for understanding why and how conversations matter for healthy relationships. This includes the conversations we don't have, should have, or can't have with our partner and those mishandled due to unfair conversational tactics. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a social worker, practitioner, and researcher, Dr Pitman coined the term Conversational Control to explain how this works and provides profound insights into how different levels of unfair conversational tactics lead to relationship stress, dysfunction and abuse. Conversational Control at higher levels gradually grooms the unsuspecting into compliance and is called Coercive Control.
This book offers practical strategies and frameworks for practitioners, therapists, counsellors, and individuals to recognise and navigate these dynamics. Tangled Web of Words is enlightening and empowering, providing an indispensable compass for practitioners and individuals. It offers straightforward and profound insights into the complexities of relationships and the dynamics of Coercive Control, ensuring readers are well-informed and confusion is a thing of the past.
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