I. Emotional Abuse: Destruction of the Self. 1. Emotional Abuse Pattern: Overt and Covert Abuse. 2. The Identification of Emotional Abuse. 3. Emotional Abuse: Health Care Costs -- II. Jen: Destruction and Reintegration of the Self. 4. The Meeting: A Healing Process Begins. 5. Fragmentation. 6. Reintegration -- III. Janet: Legal Consequences of the Abuse Process. 7. Notes from a Diary. 8. Victim Perpetrator: Participation by the Emotional Abuse Victim. 9. The Therapist as an Expert Witness in Federal Court -- IV. Wendi: Emotional Abuse as an Antecedent to Murder. 10. Attachment Anxiety: A Letter Regarding the Early Years. 11. Trauma. 12. The Therapist as an Expert Witness in State Court -- V. Jeremy: Emotional Abuse by Parents. 13. Emotional Abuse of Children: A Theoretical Perspective. 14. Hitting a Child with Words. 15. Intervening with an Emotionally Abused Child -- VI. Barbara Anne: Elder Emotional Abuse. 16. A Telephone Call to the Holiday Hotline
17. The Loneliness of Victimized Older Adults: Abuse and Intervention -- Epilogue: Hope and Strategies for the Future
