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Disorganized and repetitive, as well as sometimes very off-topic. There's a whole chapter on financial abuse, even though this is a type of abuse completely separate from verbal abuse. There's also a chapter on verbal abuse and children that feels very out of place. The book starts off overly academic and then becomes very new-age; I would have guessed this book was written in the 70s based on the Reality I/Reality II business. Large portions seem to just be the author's opinion, not based on any studies. The author also gives terrible advice to pursue couples counseling and for the abuser to do individual therapy, even though most books on abuse note that both types of therapy tend to make abusers worse. The only useful portions of this book deal with the specific kinds of verbal abuse and suggestions for responding to them.