Conversations about domestic abuse are often focused on what’s visible—physical violence, bruises, the tangible evidence of harm. However, physical violence is an instrument used to enforce regimes of coercive control in which victim-survivors are carefully groomed from subjugation using a pattern of psycho-emotional manipulation called coercive control. Over time, the cumulative effects of this type of abuse lead to the…
Amy Polacko
Amy Polacko is an investigative journalist and divorce coach. She was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that broke the TWA Flight 800 story at Newsday. Amy studied politics and literature at the College of the Holy Cross and Oxford University. She obtained her master’s degree at the Columbia School of Journalism.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and divorce coach Amy Polacko joins us to unpack the alleged post-separation abuse of Catherine Kassenoff.