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Entrapped: Detecting Coercive Control with The Quicksand Model®
The reference guide that makes coercive control visible: the whole pattern, named, illustrated, and backed by seventy years of research you can cite.
Coercive control rarely looks like abuse from the outside. There may be no bruises, no police report, no single incident anyone can point to. What there is instead is a pattern: isolation from family and friends, control of money, monitoring, intimidation, manipulation, humiliation, rules that keep changing, and the slow erosion of a person’s freedom to think and decide for themselves. Systems built to look for a punch do not see it. Entrapped is designed to make it visible.
Entrapped is not a book you read once. It is The Quicksand Model® laid out as an illustrated reference guide to the entire pattern of coercive control, built to be opened again and again. Open it anywhere and you get a full-page image facing a page that tells you exactly what you are looking at. The diagrams map what the coercive controller is actually doing, named and organized by The Quicksand Model®. The scenes show what it is like to live inside the Quicksand of coercive control. Find the one that matches your life, put your finger on it, and say: this. This is what they do.
That is what makes it a working tool rather than a memoir or a theory. If you are in family court, or heading there, you will meet attorneys, evaluators, mediators, and judges who have never been trained to recognize coercive control. Entrapped helps you understand what happened to you, gives you a clear way to describe it to the people working on your case, and shows you the research that stands behind it. The References list the peer-reviewed studies the guide rests on, and the companion Notes at quicksandmodel.com name, page by page, which researchers support each claim and what each source does and does not say. When you need to show that what happened to you is documented, recognized, and studied, the work is already done.
For a fraction of the cost of one hour with an attorney, you get seventy years of research on coercive control, organized so that you can find what you need in minutes and bring it to the people who decide your case.
Entrapped also serves advocates, therapists, attorneys, educators, and anyone else who needs a shared, accurate language for coercive control across every setting where it occurs: intimate partnerships, families, workplaces, religious groups, trafficking, and institutions.
Hardcover, 8.5 by 8.5 inches, full color, 176 pages. Published by End Coercive Control USA. Publication February 7, 2027. Preorder now.
*Please note that preordering is only available for ordering within the US. International orders coming soon.