Beverly Engel

Engel is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent decades on emotional abuse, which is harder to name than the physical kind because there is nothing to photograph. Healing Your Emotional Self works on the damage a critical or neglectful parent leaves in the mirror. The Emotionally Abusive Relationship covers what people do to each other as adults, including a chapter for readers who recognise themselves as the one doing it. She has published over twenty books in the area and is unusually direct about shame as the mechanism underneath.