Dr Laura Monk has studied how abusive men use their children as part of their strategies to undermine mothering roles, target women as mothers, damage mother-child relationships and cause mother-child separations.
She is also a registered counsellor and psychotherapist.
Her work can be found here:
https://mothersapartproject.wordpress.com/about/
https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/laura-monk-56753
https://twitter.com/drlauramonk