POWER GAMES
Confronting Hurtful Behaviour and Transforming Our Own
Kay Douglas & Kim McGregor
'An essential book if you suspect anyone you love is suffering from emotional abuse within their relationship'
New Woman on Invisible Wounds by Kay Douglas
From 'harmless' sulking to manipulative bullying, we all know what it is like to be on the receiving end of power games - and also what it is like to play them ourselves.
This supportive and practical book, drawn from conversations with more than 50 women, demonstrates how to recognise the dynamics of power struggles in your life and how to claim and express your own power with integrity. It offers strategies to help you:
• Increase your sense of personal power
• Understand power games within close relationships
• Deal assertively with people who put you down or undermine you
• Address children's behavioural problems
• Confront bullying in the workplace
• Confront your own hurtful behaviour
• Defuse power struggles and resolve conflicts
Kay Douglas
has a special interest in working with relationship difficulties and women's empowerment. She has worked as a social worker, counsellor, group facilitator and psychotherapist for 18 years. Kay currently maintains a private therapy practice. She also works at a Women's Centre as a counsellor and psychotherapist and as a co-facilitator of men's Living Without Violence programmes.
Kay is passionate about the importance of women's stories. Her first book Invisible Wounds: A Self-Help Guide for Women in Destructive Relationships has helped empower many women who are in, or recovering from, destructive relationships.
She lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her partner and is the mother of three adult children and the stepmother of two children.
Kim McGregor
has specialised in working with children and adult survivors of interpersonal violence since the mid 1980s. She is a clinical Associate in the Psychology Department, University of Auckland, where she is completing her PhD and is also a Research Fellow in the Injury Prevention Research Centre (University of Auckland). In addition she maintains a small private therapy practice and is the author of Warriors of Truth: Adult Survivors Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse.
She was born in the United Kingdom but now lives by the sea in Auckland, New Zealand with her partner and daughter.