Psychology and sociology understand coercive control and institutional betrayal well. Courts and institutions act as though they do not. These references are the foundation of that knowledge. They are cited in clinical training, legal scholarship, and policy documents, then routinely ignored in practice.
What the literature actually says
Technology-Facilitated Abuse
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Psychopathology
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Public Health
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Trauma & Recovery
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Coercive Control
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Narcissistic Abuse
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Institutional Betrayal
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Workplace Abuse
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A Note on This List
This is a working bibliography — selective, not exhaustive. It reflects the literature I return to most often in my research and advocacy work, and the sources I recommend most frequently to clients, collaborators, and people trying to understand what happened to them.
Entries are linked to their DOI or original source where available. If you encounter a reference that is paywalled and cannot access it, feel free to reach out — I can often point you to an open-access version or author-posted preprint.