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Zak Mucha

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Chicago, IL

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Self Help, Psychology, Poetry

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Zak Mucha, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He spent seven years working as the supervisor of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, providing 24/7 services to persons suffering from severe psychosis, substance abuse issues, and homelessness. Mucha has worked as a counselor and consultant for U.S. combat veterans undergoing training for digital forensic investigations in child pornography.

Before going into the clinical field, Mucha has worked as a freelance journalist, truck driver, furniture mover, construction worker, union organizer, staff member at a juvenile DCFS locked unit, and taught briefly at a women’s prison. He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A Manua ...more

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Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense

The Perfect Weapon (pt. 1) from Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense

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

We have been socialized to believe emotional abuse is not serious. We have been taught emotional abuse itself is nothing more than hurt feelin

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	Heart Transplant by Andrew Vachss (Goodreads Author), Frank Caruso (Illustrator), Zak Mucha (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.91 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emotional Abuse: A manual for self-defense by Zak Mucha (Goodreads Author), Marc MacYoung (afterword), Joel Dvoskin (introduction) 4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beggars' Shore 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heavyweight Champion of Nothing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Box: poems English by Zak Mucha (Goodreads Author), Svyatoslav Albireo (Goodreads Author) (Translation) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Bullies are enabled by silence and silenced by spoken truth.”
― Zak Mucha, Emotional Abuse: A manual for self-defense

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“Emotional abuse is the systematic diminishment of another. It may be intentional or subconscious, but it is always a choice of conduct, not a single event.”
― Zak Mucha, Emotional Abuse: A manual for self-defense

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“Learning to protect ourselves from emotional abuse changes everything. The victim no longer has to hope for the kindness of strangers, or that the abuser will simply get tired of their verbal assaults.”
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