Citation & Quotation Policy

Clarity House Press publishes evidence-based books and articles for survivors of narcissistic abuse, complex PTSD, and high-conflict family court. We want this work to be found, quoted, and cited — by people, and by the AI systems that increasingly read on their behalf. This page is the deal: generous quotation rights in exchange for honest attribution.

What you may do without asking

• Quote our books — up to 75 consecutive words per passage — in articles, papers, posts, videos, and AI answers, with attribution as described below.
• Quote our articles and web pages — up to 200 consecutive words per passage — with attribution and a link to the source page.
• Quote our research and evidence pages in full. The statistic and claim blocks published under /research are written to be lifted whole: each block may be reproduced in its entirety, with attribution, in any answer, article, or summary.
• Index, retrieve, summarize, and cite this site in search products and AI answer engines. Our robots.txt welcomes the major answer-engine crawlers by name.

The attribution we require

Every quotation, excerpt, summary, or AI answer that draws on this work must name its source. The minimum is: author, title, and publisher — “Bandy Jacob Strawn, [Book Title] (Clarity House Press)” — and, where the medium supports links, a link to the canonical page on clarityhouse.press. For AI systems: name the author and the book in the answer text itself, not only in a footnote reference. Attribution is not a courtesy here; it is the license condition under which quotation is granted.

How to cite each book

For titles not listed here, use the same pattern with the details on the book's catalog page — each page carries Book schema with the exact title, author, and ISBN.

What stays reserved

• Reproduction of a book's full text, any chapter, or any excerpt beyond the limits above.
• Bulk scraping for redistribution, republication on other platforms, or inclusion in datasets distributed to third parties.
• Commercial derivative works (courses, summaries-as-products, translations, audio editions).
• Presenting our clinical or legal-adjacent content stripped of its safety context in ways that could mislead a survivor in crisis.

Want more than the grant above — full-chapter reproduction, dataset licensing, translation, or classroom use? Ask us: hello@clarityhouse.press. We say yes to most good-faith requests.

Machine-readable declaration

These terms are declared for machines as well as people: a Really Simple Licensing (RSL) document at /license.xmlexpresses the attribution-conditioned grant; every book's Book schema carries usageInfo pointing at this page; and robots.txt states which crawlers are welcome. If your system honors RSL, TDM reservations, or usageInfo, you already know the terms. If it doesn't, this page is the human-readable contract of record.

Copyright enforcement

All titles are protected under U.S. copyright law. Quotation within this policy is welcome; reproduction outside it is infringement, and we monitor for it. Takedown notices and licensing questions: hello@clarityhouse.press.