Sukey had told him it was love that did it before, that broke through Dedra's coercive control.
Even costly and coercive controls would merely shift the "doubling date" from perhaps 2040 to 2045.
Democrats in the House are waiting to see how many bags of taxes and coercive controls the Senate will toss overboard.
Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
For our purposes, I have chosen five stories that are representative of the coercive control and helplessness that manipulation creates.
You will find yourself in manipulation territory and under the thumb of manipulators' coercive control.
Manipulators establish coercive control of their victims often by using punishment in combination with other methods of reinforcement.
In the next few chapters we will see how emotionally unhealthy it can become for a victim to submit to the coercive control of a manipulator.
The "honeymoon" or initial period of relatively benign influence typically has long passed, and the manipulator has tightened the strings of coercive control.
Unless you start thinking like a hardened target, your susceptibility to coercive control will not end.