"Psychological abuse (also referred to as psychological violence, emotional abuse, or mental abuse) is a form ofabuse, characterized by a person subjecting, or exposing, another person to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder."

"Economic abuse is a form of abuse when one intimate partner has control over the other partner's access to economic resources,^[1]which diminishes the victim's capacity to support him/herself and forces him/her to depend on the perpetrator financially"