Coming soon to France: Ban on spousal "psychological violence"?

Psychiatrist Marie-France Hirigoyen is an authority on psychological violence but she said she was “cautious” about a new law because she fears it might be easily misused.

“I think it’s important to have a law but it must be formulated so there isn’t too much risk of manipulation or mistakes,” she told me.

“I treat people whose lives have been torn apart but they haven’t been hit. There are no physical marks, no proof.”…

“For a long time people said you can’t have a law against bullying because it’s too difficult to prove, but now there is a law and people get convicted.”