Intimate Violence
Subtitle: Contemporary Treatment Innovations
Contributors: Donald G. Dutton (Editor); Daniel Jay Sonkin (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780789020192
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Psychology; Social Science; Mental Illness; Victims of family violence; Sociology; Treatment; Family violence; Abuse - General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Rehabilitation
First sentence: SUMMARY. Assaultiveness and abusiveness have a psychology that must be addressed in therapy; they are not merely the product of "bad attitudes" or social roles, nor can they be narrowly defined as the robotic imitation of action.