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WORK TITLE: Intimate Coercion
WORK NOTES: with Melissa Scardaville
PSEUDONYM(S): Loring, Marti Tamm
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WEBSITE: http://www.martiloring.com/
CITY: Atlanta
STATE: GA
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https://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/20957/marti-loring-phd
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PERSONAL
Female.
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CAREER
Writer, sociologist, and social worker. Center for Mental Health and Human Development and Emotional Abuse Institute, both Atlanta, GA, director. Has also worked with traumatized soldiers and served as an expert witness in court cases.
WRITINGS
Contributor of articles to professional journals.
SIDELIGHTS
Marti Loring is a writer, sociologist, and social worker based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the director of the Emotional Abuse Institute and the Center for Mental Health and Human Development. Loving has treated people who have experienced traumatic events including natural disasters, the Vietnam War, the shootings at an Atlanta courthouse, the bombing during the Atlanta Olympics, and the Iraq War. She has also treated battered women and victims of emotional abuse. Loring has served as an expert witness during court trials in cases of abuse and trauma and has spoken to groups throughout the United States. She has appeared as a commentator on television programs for networks including CNN International.
Loring has written and edited several books on topics in sociology. She wrote the 1996 book Stories from the Heart: Case Studies of Emotional Abuse. She is the editor, with Robert A. Geffner and Corinna Young, of Bullying Behavior: Current Issues, Research, and Interventions, which was released in 2001.
Emotional Abuse
In the 1994 volume Emotional Abuse, her first book, Loring discusses a type of abuse that had not received much attention before the time of the book’s publication. In describing emotional abuse and its effects on victims, she cites the experiences of some of her patients.
Liane V. Davis reviewed Emotional Abuse in Social Work. Davis compared the volume to Treating Abuse in Families, a book by Elaine Leeder. Davis suggested: “Marti Tamm Loring … draws on her practice experience to develop a model for working with women who have experienced emotional abuse from their partners. Although she makes the important point that this form of abuse is largely unidentified either by its victims or by those who may be called on to intervene in their lives, I find her approach to be less well grounded than Leeder’s either in theory or research.”
Intimate Coercion
In the 2015 volume Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recovery, which Loring wrote with Melissa Scardaville, the authors define intimate coercion and discuss the factors that can cause it to happen. They also comment on the various types of coercive relationships and include case studies that represent some of the topics in the book. Loring and Scardaville explain that victims of intimate coercion can heal through therapy.
K. Evans offered a favorable assessment of Intimate Coercion in Choice. The reviewer asserted: “This readable volume will be valuable to anyone seeking to understand domestic violence, mental health problems, or criminal justice.” Evans categorized the volume as “recommended.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Choice, April, 2016, K. Evans, review of Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recovery, p. 1201.
Social Work, September, 1996, Liane V. Davis, review of Emotional Abuse, p. 561.
ONLINE
VoiceAmerica, https://www.voiceamerica.com/ (April 5, 2017), author profile.
Marti Loring, LCSW, PhD, is clinical social worker and clinical sociologist.
Hearts Shattered By Trauma…
Healing Together
Dr. Loring has given lectures about trauma and abuse across the country. She has treated individuals, families and groups healing from trauma. Dr. Loring was active during the Olympic Bombing and the Atlanta courthouse shootings in helping traumatized individuals. Her numerous articles and two books (including EMOTIONAL ABUSE) explore the role of emotional abuse and other factors in creating trauma, as well as methods of healing. The desperation and despair experienced by trauma victims can lead to hopelessness and confusion. Many battered women state that the threats and put-downs they have experienced are more painful than broken bones resulting from physical abuse.
Natural disasters also cause trauma- hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, airplane and train accidents. And man-made disasters, such as terrorist attacks and killings, can cause devastating trauma to individuals, families, and groups of people. The shock, horror, loss of understanding and meaning, and disruption of normal human functioning can be temporary or more chronic when people develop Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with its anxiety and sadness.
Dr. Marti Loring is an expert witness in court cases across America when trauma and abuse have contributed to a person’s criminal behavior. Emotional abuse can occur in the form of threats to harm or kill either the woman or her loved ones. Trauma may result from some type of abuse directly experienced by the child, teenager, woman or man. Or, people can be devastated when they witness emotional, sexual, and/or physical abuse toward a loved one. Especially harmful are 1) a child seeing her sister or brother abused; 2) a child witnessing the mother beaten or threatened by the father. Sometimes emotional abuse in the form of threats to harm or kill either the woman or her loved ones can drive a woman to commit behaviors she would never have considered in all of her life. And battered women may recant by denying very real accusations they have previously made to police. It is important for an expert witness to help attorneys, police, judges, and juries understand a person’s history— what was going on in his/her life that led to behaviors that may be violent or unlawful.
Dr. Loring has worked with traumatized soldiers who have returned from war in Vietnam and Iraq. She appeared on CNN International to describe the trauma of hostages returning from Colombia. (view video)
Dr. Loring can be reached at: Post Office Box 2322, Decatur GA 30031 or by e-mail at mloring@earthlink.net
If you would like to interview Dr. Loring, please contact the Center for Mental Health and Human Development at 404-377-7732.
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Marti Loring, PhD
Marti Loring LCSW, PhD, is a social worker and sociologist in Atlanta, Georgia. She is Director of the Center for Mental Health and Human Development as well as the Emotional Abuse Institute. Dr. Loring’s expertise is in the areas of abuse and trauma. She has taught in several universities and conducted numerous training seminars. She has written several articles published in professional journals and two books, including Emotional Abuse. An evaluator in court cases, Dr. Loring has testified across the country in many cases where emotional abuse has included coercing a partner to commit a crime. The loss of connection to one’s inner self during emotional abuse is important to Dr. Loring. She consults across the world on this topic, helping people to rediscover the Self and to establish healthy relationships and situations that create greater inner strength.
QUOTED: "Marti Tamm Loring ... draws on her practice experience to develop a model for working with women who have experienced emotional abuse from their partners. Although she makes the important point that this form of abuse is largely unidentified either by its victims or by those who may be called on to intervene in their lives, I find her approach to be less well grounded than Leeder's either in theory or research."
Emotional Abuse
Liane V. Davis
41.5 (Sept. 1996): p561.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 1996 Oxford University Press
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Treating Abuse in Families and Emotional Abuse have similar purposes and approaches. Both authors draw on their clinical experience to present their approaches to working with people who are abused. They also share an underlying feminist orientation, although Elaine Leeder is far more consistent and clear about how feminism influences her model. Leeder, whose focus is the range of abuse that occurs within families, has written the more useful and well-grounded book. She provides the reader with a comprehensive and somewhat novel approach to working with individuals who experience, perpetrate, and observe violence within their families. Although most of the book is devoted to partner abuse, especially abuse against women by male partners, Leeder also covers child and elder abuse. Her model for all of these situations involves working with the abuser and the abused as well as others living in the home, sometimes individually, sometimes together. She refers to it as a "unified family approach."
I appreciated her ability to move beyond traditional family therapy models while recognizing the importance of providing services to all family members, including the children who are witnesses to but not victims of abuse. One of the most novel aspects of her model is the incorporation of community members. Her community is narrowly defined, including mainly extended family members and friends, but her expectation is for them to uphold community norms against violence: A brother might take on responsibility for removing the abuser from the home when he begins to get out of control; a friend might be called on to support the wife in seeking an order of protection.
Leeder is inclusive in writing about violence that occurs within families. She provides examples of her work with gay and lesbian couples and has a chapter devoted to racial, ethnic, and class considerations in the treatment of abuse. Unfortunately, the chapter stands largely alone; the major exemplars from her practice are white clients. She extends the model to elder abuse and child abuse, spending a disproportionate amount of time on Munchausen syndrome by proxy, one of the newest diagnostic labels applied to women.
Extending the model to multiple forms of abuse has strengths as well as limitations. Leeder errs a bit too far in stressing the commonalities among various forms of abuse, giving too little attention to the many ways in which they differ. Like many works drawn from clinical experience, the book could have been better referenced, incorporating more state-of-the-art research. For those wanting new ideas, as well as those, like Leeder herself, who are practicing in relative isolation from other resources, Treating Abuse in Families should be an interesting addition to their libraries.
One aspect of the book irritated me: It reads as if no one proofread the book, not even a computer. So I recommend that those who are driven crazy when they find typos on almost every other page keep their distance from this otherwise well-written and well-conceptualized book.
Marti Tamm Loring also draws on her practice experience to develop a model for working with women who have experienced emotional abuse from their partners. Although she makes the important point that this form of abuse is largely unidentified either by its victims or by those who may be called on to intervene in their lives, I find her approach to be less well grounded than Leeder's either in theory or research. Without much evidence, she argues that emotional abuse victims usually have a history of "anxious attachment," a term borrowed from Bowlby. Although this book has some useful aspects, there is little devoted exclusively to emotional abuse, an issue that confronts many women.
One aspect of both books merits discussion. The two books present "treatment" models. Why do social workers who consider themselves feminists continue to use words that are incongruent with feminist, and even nonfeminist, social work principles? Social workers talk about the unique perspective they have about people's strengths and about the necessity to intervene in various aspects of their life domain. Feminists speak about the collaborative relationship between worker and clients. Why, then, have these two authors fallen back on a language that embodies the notion that experts have a body of techniques to fix others?
Liane V. Davis School of Social Welfare University of Kansas Lawrence
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Davis, Liane V. "Emotional Abuse." Social Work, vol. 41, no. 5, 1996, p. 561+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA18832017&it=r&asid=da134a4e7039c96880a409fb0e631197. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.
QUOTED: "This readable volume will be valuable to anyone seeking to understand domestic violence, mental health problems, or criminal justice."
"Recommended."
Gale Document Number: GALE|A18832017
Loring, Marti. Intimate coercion: recognition and recovery
K. Evans
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1201.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 American Library Association CHOICE
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Loring, Marti. Intimate coercion: recognition and recovery, by Marti Loring and Melissa Scardaville. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 145p bibl index afp ISBN 9781442254329 cloth, $60.00; ISBN 9781442254336 ebook, $59.99
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RC569
2015-14100 CIP
As the publishers website states, this volume "explores the foundation and causes of intimate coercion, focusing specifically on the identification of the issue and subsequent healing process." Sociologists Loring and Scardaville shine a light on intimate coercion and how devastating it can be for the victims and their families. In the book's 11 chapters, they provide information on what intimate coercion entails; how to evaluate subjects to determine if coercion is occurring; how coercion happens, and reasons why it continues, in a relationship; and what therapies work with coercion. The book details the types of abuse--physical, sexual, and emotional--common to coercive relationships. Case studies scattered throughout the book are invaluable in helping the reader understand the nature of intimate coercion--on the parts of the coerced and the coercer. A chapter on special populations highlights some of the distinct problems (deportation, making sexual orientation public, and so on) the groups might face. The chapter on the transformation of coerced subjects using therapy and transformative tools is particularly interesting. This readable volume will be valuable to anyone seeking to understand domestic violence, mental health problems, or criminal justice. Summing Up: ** Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.--K. Evans, Indiana State University
Evans, K.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Evans, K. "Loring, Marti. Intimate coercion: recognition and recovery." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Apr. 2016, p. 1201+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA449661688&it=r&asid=d5f4a69aef8f443214a66e0ea9a2604c. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A449661688