A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as damaging to long-term mental well-being as physical abuse, if not more so. This groundbreaking research highlights the need to ...

Physical and verbal abuse during childhood were each associated with a greater than 50% increase in likelihood of poor mental health during adulthood, with exposure to both types of abuse compounding ...

(CNN) — Cruel words can leave a mark on a child –– and may have as much of an impact as physical abuse, new research has found. People who experienced physical abuse as a child were at a 50% ...

If Instagram is your therapist, you may have been led to believe that if someone strongly disagrees with your point of view, then they are gaslighting you. As a psychotherapist, I have heard this term ...

Children are more likely to experience verbal abuse than any other form of maltreatment, and this abuse can have lasting effects. A study by researchers from the University College London says that ...

Virtually all of my clients in an intimate relationship with someone who has narcissistic personality disorder report being verbally abused by their partner. Unfortunately, some partners do not stop ...