The Dickheads Handbook for Survivors | Saskia Lightburn-Ritchie
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THE
DICKHEADS
HANDBOOK

for survivors

SASKIA LIGHTBURN-RITCHIE

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“You are not confused. You are responding rationally to an irrational situation.”

FROM THE BOOK

THE BOOK

A field guide for people the system has let down.

Written by someone who has sat in the rooms. Police interviews. Family court. Refuges. MARAC. Funerals.

The Dickheads Handbook for Survivors names the patterns most professionals will not name out loud. Coercive control. Post-separation abuse. The way the systems supposed to protect you fail in predictable ways, on a predictable schedule.

It is written plainly. No therapeutic register. No comfort language. It treats you as someone capable of following a clear line of thought even on a day when nothing else is clear.

If you have ever been told you are overreacting, this book is the second opinion.

AUTHOR

Written by someone who knows the territory.

AUTHOR

SASKIA
LIGHTBURN-
RITCHIE

CEO, MyCWA. Founder, Domestic Abuse Experts.

Saskia Lightburn-Ritchie has spent more than thirty years working in the response to domestic abuse. She is the CEO of MyCWA (Cheshire Without Abuse), founder of Domestic Abuse Experts (DAE), and the statutory Victims Advocate on the Cheshire Youth Justice Board.

She co-founded Our Own Words, a survivor-led research project, with Sam Billingham. She has sat in family courts, MARAC meetings, perpetrator interviews, refuges, safeguarding panels, and policy committees. She has written the strategies and delivered the interventions, and cleaned up the aftermath when systems have failed.

She writes from professional expertise and lived experience. She does not perform either. She works from both.

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