Learn — understand coercive control

Insights library

Thirty-nine cards, in plain language

Each card explains one part of coercive control: what it means, why it’s harmful, and the psychology behind it. The content is drawn from licensed psychologists, counsellors and UK government guidance, with its sources listed.

Understanding coercive control, the abuse cycle, love bombing and why victims stay
Perpetrator tactics such as manufactured jealousy, DARVO and isolation
Victim responses such as walking on eggshells, compliance and reactive behaviour
Every card ends with support helpline details

The Sivolo Insights library: perpetrator tactics such as manufactured jealousy, DARVO, gaslighting and isolation, each tagged CPS §76

A Sivolo Insights card on the abuse cycle, with a diagram of its four phases

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Part of your report

Learning that meets you where you are

Insight cards are linked from the findings in your report, so when Sivolo names a pattern you can read what it means there and then.

A private self-recognition Q&A: gentle questions you answer only to yourself, on your own phone
The framework: each coercive-control category Sivolo analyses against, drawn from CPS statutory guidance under the Serious Crime Act 2015 §76
Guides and setup: step-by-step walkthroughs, from exporting a chat to sharing safely

The Sivolo framework: Isolation from Support Networks opened, with its CPS guidance reference and the indicators Sivolo looks for

A Sivolo Insights card on the survival brain, explaining why reactions under threat are not evidence of abuse, with a diagram of the DARVO loop

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Narcissistic abuse

When the pattern finally has a name

Police and courts deal in behaviour, not personality: having a personality disorder isn’t a crime, so you won’t hear “narcissistic abuse” in a charge. But many of the behaviours people describe as narcissistic abuse are the same ones CPS guidance describes as controlling or coercive, and for many people the pattern is what finally explains what they have been living through.

The idealise, devalue, discard cycle, and the “hoovering” that pulls you back to the start
Why the early “perfect” phase was part of the pattern, not a relationship that was later lost
Pathological narcissism and the dark triad in plain language, drawing on clinical psychologists who specialise in narcissistic abuse, such as Dr Ramani Durvasula, with every source listed on the card
Sivolo’s analysis scores the behaviour in your messages against CPS guidance, not anyone’s personality

The Sivolo Insights library: narcissism and the dark triad, and victim responses such as trauma bonding and the fawn response

A Sivolo Insights card on the idealise, devalue, discard cycle, with a diagram of its four phases

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The psychology behind it

Why it’s so hard to just leave

Some cards go deeper, into what coercive control does to the mind and body, so you can see that the way you reacted made sense.

The neurochemistry of trauma bonding: why missing someone who hurt you isn’t weakness
Amygdala hijack: why you might have frozen, gone along with things or snapped under threat
People pleasing, the fawn response and codependency
Complex trauma (CPTSD), and how it can follow coercive control even without physical violence

The Sivolo Insights library: victim impact cards and the science of trauma

A Sivolo Insights card: The Neurochemistry of Trauma Bonding

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Understand what’s been happening

Thirty-nine cards, in plain language

Learning that meets you where you are

When the pattern finally has a name

Why it’s so hard to just leave

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