Childhood emotional and sexual abuse mark women’s brains in distinct patterns — with emotional abuse affecting regions involved in self-awareness and sexual abuse affecting areas involved in genital ...

Dear Annie: My mom and I read your column every day, and we always find your advice thoughtful and compassionate. Lately, I've been thinking about something I witnessed years ago while working in a ...

Many abused women in individual therapy withhold important details about their relationships. Most say they're embarrassed to be completely honest with their therapists. One of the women I treated in ...

Almost a third of women and more than a quarter of men in England and Wales are estimated to have experienced abuse during ...

They were little girls with dreams of Olympic gold when they started in gymnastics. Now they are women with lifelong injuries, suffocating anxiety and debilitating eating disorders. They are the other ...

Cases of domestic violence in China point to a legal system that looks good on paper but is failing victims because of a lack ...