In addition, some studies of men who batter suggest that there are very different kinds of abusers. Rather than lumping all men into one category, as was generally done in the 1970s, researchers are defining batterer types. These findings could have implications for refining treatment programs, and accordingly they are being championed by therapists and experts who have argued that a tailored, integrated approach would be most effective in treating men who batter. I am relieved to see this kind of thing emerging. That is partially true, but it is too linear an explanation.
Human beings are much more complicated than that.
After a few years, though, people who worked with the victims of violence began to turn their attention to men, who would often just move on to another relationship in which they would batter again. And they started to see different women coming in who had been abused by the same man, recalls Richard M. Tolman, professor of social work at the University of Michigan , who began working in 1980 with men who batter in Anchorage, Alaska. The first programs for men were built around what is called the pro-feminist model. Counselors view violence as an extension of patriarchy, as a way of men maintaining power. Men enrolled in these programs go through resocialization.