Clara Porrúa, is a Professor and Ph.D. candidate in the Social Psychology Department at the University of Barcelona (Spain). She is a researcher in the project: “Analysis and assessment of the control strategies, manipulation and psychological violence used to the exclusion or subjection of one's will” (SEJ2004-01299-PSIC), coordinated by Dr. Álvaro Rodríguez Carballeira. Her research is about the psychological abuse in couple violence. (claraporrua@ub.edu)