Understanding Coercive Control in Families with Dr. Christine Cocchiola

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever learned from an expert in coercive control? Ever thought about the authoritarianism in a family structure? Maybe you or someone you know were married to a narcissist or knows of children being manipulated by an abusive parent. My latest guest, social worker Christine Cocchiola, is an expert on adult and child victims of coercive control. Dr. Christine Cocchiola has a doctorate in Social Welfare, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and is a tenured Social Work professor. Dr. Cocchiola also has a brand-new book with co-author Amy Polacko called Framed: Women in the Family Court Underworld. It consists of 22 stories from survivors of coercive control and narcissistic abuse and what it was like for them and their families dealing with the legal system. Dr. Cocchiola's work helps combat what I think is an unrealized epidemic, which is people who are harmful and toxic to others. During our talk, we focused on what I believe is vitally important in understanding authoritarian and coercive control when a parent acts like a cult leader. Join me in this fascinating conversation! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassen with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:09.4	And the topic today is absolutely vital, important.
0:14.8	It's about families as cults.
0:18.2	Ever think about an authoritarian family structure? Maybe you grew up in one. Maybe you are
0:24.0	married to someone who is a narcissist and controlling. Well, my next guest is someone that I met in
0:31.8	Barcelona at the International Caltic Studies Association Conference, and we are mutual fans of each other.
0:42.3	And thank you for wearing a t-shirt
0:44.6	with my motto on it, Christine.
0:47.7	So Christine Cotill has a doctorate in social welfare
0:53.0	and is a licensed clinical social worker and an expert
0:57.5	on experiences of adult and child victims of coercive control.
1:02.1	If you haven't heard the term coercive control, you're going to learn a lot today,
1:07.9	and you're going to go to her website coercive control consulting.com
1:12.9	where she has webinars, online webinars you can take. She has a brand new book out with a co-author
1:20.4	Amy Palacco called Framed Women in the Family Court Underground. We'll talk about that later.
1:31.8	And all I can say is we have an epidemic, it seems, of people who are harmful to other people, toxic, and who really
1:42.1	gets damaged or children who are, you know, unwitting victims in a dysfunctional, you know, family situation.
1:54.3	And I know a little bit of your story, because we've talked before, you know, I was in the Mooney's, so I got the program, then I was like,
2:02.2	what is brainwashing? So I became an expert on cults. You had a personal experience that got
2:08.0	you started in this expertise. Why don't you share with my listeners, please?
2:13.5	Sure. So, I mean, I actually started this work at the age of 19. Someone I know had been abused as a child. And I just decided I wanted to be an advocate against child abuse, right, or for the prevention of child abuse. Little did I know that my boyfriend at the time who would end up being my husband was an abuser. But the interesting part about that is I didn't know and I worked in child welfare.
2:38.0	I became a licensed clinical social worker.
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