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#booksky Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense by LCSW and psychoanalyst Zak Mucha.

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Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self - Defense by LCSW and psychoanalyst Zak Mucha. #booksky #psychology

"Everyone should read this book. Even if you have never been the victim of interpersonal violence, or a crime involving sex, you need this glimpse into how the system works. You will never skim over the judge-and-attorney section of your ballot again." Sex Crimes: Then & Now by Alice Vachss #booksky

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Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self - Defense by Zak Mucha. Available to order at your local bookstore. #booksky

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In Good Hands by David Heckler "This book is a riveting retelling of a true 1993 murder trial involving three infants in daycare in South Carolina. In addition, the author offers well researched insights into the lives of the people involved." #booksky

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"I wish I had read this book ten years ago. It feels amazing to read validating, well-informed and illuminating chapters about almost every aspect of emotional abuse from someone who UNDERSTANDS it on a gut level, the same way that a oncologist understands how cancer cells form and grow." #booksky

Emotional Abuse : A Manual for Self - Defense by Zak Mucha. #booksky #psychology

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One Bully at a Time by Alice Vachss. Join Anna and her friends as they take on the worst bully of them all - their high school teacher. #booksky

“'Hard' isn't the same as 'mean'.” - Andrew Vachss

Author Michael Zapata and I will be discussing "Trauma and American Fascism" at After-Words Books in Chicago. Thurs, 9/11 at 6:30. You can sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...

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OBaaT, published by Pay What It Costs earlier this year. Check it out!

"While Zak Mucha’s explanation of the harms of emotional abuse is useful, it pales in comparison to his wisdom in teaching us emotional self-defense. Learning to protect ourselves from emotional abuse changes everything.” –Joel Dvoskin, Ph.D. clinical and forensic psychology #booksky #newrelease

a fine conversation with Nicole Thomas on poetry, psychoanalysis, and the new book. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5Raa... #emotionalabuse#psychoanalysis#poetry

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Published by Pay What It Costs, The Ambulatorium. "I like the meat of these poems, the tear and slap of them. I still feel them between my teeth long after reading them. Zak Mucha has a toughness and a way of bringing blood to the page that I admire." #booksky

#edusky Educators - as you begin the school year, consider offering OBaaT in your classrooms and libraries. Now more than ever, students need to see and hear about the importance of representation and standing up for what is right. #booksky

The Gestapo called her ‘the most dangerous of all Allied spies.’ With a wooden leg, Virginia Hall built resistance networks, crossed the Pyrenees, and proved tyranny always underestimates those it dismisses. Her story matters now. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/15xg...

“When the truth isn’t hopeful , the telling of it is” - Andrea Gibson

Admitted as an attorney in New York in 1975, Alice Vachss was one of the first women criminal trial lawyers of her era. Named a NY Times Notable Book of the Year when it was originally published in 1993 - Vachss released Sex Crimes: Then & Now in 2017. "Nobody knows rapists better." #booksky

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Emotional abuse is about power. Whoever can define reality has the ultimate power. In emotional abuse, the aggressor attempts to define reality, "You're too sensitive," and "I couldn't help it. You made me mad." Each statement is an attempt to shape how another person perceives reality. #booksky

True Crime at its best, In Good Hands reads like a mystery novel but delivers a wealth of critical information. The true story of two four-month-old infants who died in a South Carolina home day care within nine months. Was it a coincidence, or were these crimes? Published in 2023. #booksky

We are Pay What It Costs Publishing. A small but mighty publishing house specializing in books designed to further justice. "Truth is all that matters. I’ll pay what it costs to get the truth. I’ll pay what it costs to get it out." - Andrew Vachss #booksky

Published by Pay What It Costs earlier this year: One Bully at a Time by Alice Vachss. "OBaaT is a novel, but it also serves as a dramatized guide to self-advocacy and allyship."

The lastest release from Pay What it Costs Publishing: Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense by psychoanalyst and author Zak Mucha. Published July 15th. #emotionalabuse #selfdefense #booksky