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Pay What It Costs Publishing @paywhatitcosts.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Kirkus review for @zakmucha.bsky.social's Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense. "A careful, uplifting primer on recognizing and countering psychological manipulation." #booksky #psychology

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EMOTIONAL ABUSE: A MANUAL FOR SELF-DEFENSE | Kirkus Reviews

A breakdown of the types of emotional manipulation and tactics to counter them.

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Pay What It Costs Publishing @paywhatitcosts.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The latest publication by @zakmucha.bsky.social. Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense. #booksky

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Pay What It Costs Publishing @paywhatitcosts.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense by psychoanalyst @zakmucha.bsky.social. #booksky #psychology

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Northwestern University's MA in Writing, MFA in Prose & Poetry @nugradwriting.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

If you're in Chicago this Thursday, Sept. 11, join @michaelzapata.bsky.social & @zakmucha.bsky.social at After-Words Books, 23 E. Illinois St., 6:30 PM for a discussion on trauma and fascism. Eventbrite link ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...

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Trauma and American Fascism

Join our discussion on trauma and American fascism with authors Zak Mucha and Michael Zapata

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Author Michael Zapata and I will be discussing "Trauma and American Fascism" at After-Words Books in Chicago. Thurs, 9/11 at 6:30. You can sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This Friday, Aug 22nd 6PM. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/emotional-...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

on the air (after Black Sabbath) talking about poetry, trauma, psychoanalysis and emotional abuse at WZRD 88.3 FM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-vR...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

a fine conversation with Nicole Thomas on poetry, psychoanalysis, and the new book. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5Raa... #emotionalabuse#psychoanalysis#poetry

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EP 29 - Emotional Self-Defense & Creative Power | Zak Mucha, LCSW | Author of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense (2025)

Let's Talk: Passion & Purpose with Nicole Thomas · Episode

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense -- #1 New Release (for the moment) in medical child psychology... bit.ly/44ZE5zr

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

KIRKUS Review (Get it) :"Throughout, Mucha maintains a deeply empathetic, supportive manner informed by extensive experience and research... Anyone who’s ever dealt with abuse of this kind will find this book invaluable." Available today wherever you get your books: bit.ly/465SVGW

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"Two Teachers (for Tova)" in AEOS Magazine

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

zakmucha.com/blog "Like any other abuse, emotional abuse is about power. Whoever can define reality has the ultimate power."

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Mark_MH @mark-mh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is an amazing book. Highly recommend. #MentalHealth #Codependancy #EmotionalAbuse

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This Friday, June 20th-Dr. Alan Bass will discuss "The Genocide Principle" at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. You can join us here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825601

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“The book is entirely guff-and-agenda-free. It's solid with aphorisms; every other paragraph has a quotable sentence in it… If you want a user manual for your own brain, you're gonna love this.” – A. R. Banks. www.amazon.com/Emotional-Ab...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"An American Ambulatorium" in The Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis: www.cccacommunity.com/an-american-...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense -- currently #1 new release in child development on Kindle... www.amazon.com/Emotional-Ab...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"There is no real difference between physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. All that distinguishes one from another is the abuser’s choice of weapon." —Andrew Vachss bit.ly/4kNKZhH

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This Sunday at Roscoe Books. 7 pm...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

see this: www.bridgettebramlage.com/about

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Chicago mobster Kenny Eto took a bullet to the head and left the ER with two band aids: "A Dream of Joe Peschi and Kenny Eto"-- theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/04...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"An American Ambulatorium" in The Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis: www.cccacommunity.com/an-american-...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis presents Peter Shabad, PhD, asking, "Is it Better to Love and Lose or Never Love at All?" on Friday, April 25th 7 PM on Zoom. Join us here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825586 #psychoanalysis

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

sign up at ccpsa.org for Don Carveth, PhD, discussing his 45 year journey through psychoanalysis on Fri, April 4th at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis #psychoanalysis

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Register here for Matt Hiller's presentation on dissociation, trauma, and ketamine: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825579 #trauma#ketamine

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Register here for Matt Hiller's presentation on dissociation, trauma, and ketamine: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825579 #trauma#ketamine

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A poem published by Aeos... #poetry#noir

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Night Science" published in the Literary Underground. #poetry theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/02...

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

From the second issue of Aeos Magazine

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis hosts Howard Levine, MD on Fri, March 7th for his presentation, "Minding the Gap". Register here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825575 #psychoanalysis

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Thinking today about the best editor I ever had... @obaat.bsky.social

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Coming in July -- new edition of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense. ...this is from the intro by Dogo Barry Graham

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Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Simone de Beauvoir wrote of Americans in her travelogue of 1947: “They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism..." zakmucha.com/blog/item/21...

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Zak Mucha, LCSW - a new year's note from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis...

A New Year’s Note from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis Simone de Beauvoir wrote of Americans in her travelogue of 1947: “They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary ...

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