Intimate Violence A Study of Injustice

Name: Intimate Violence A Study of Injustice
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ISBN: 9780231119849

ISBN-10: 0231119844

ISBN-13: 9780231119849

Edition: 2002

Authors: Julie Blackman, Julie Blackman

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Traditional analyses of domestic battery often point to the batterer's need for power and control to explain patterns of violent behavior. Offering a nonjudgmental and compassionate view of the interior life of the batterer, Intimate Violence moves beyond this explanation and transforms our understanding of the psychic origins of abuse. The book is divided into three main sections. The first assesses psychoanalytic understanding of the inner mechanisms of the batterer's violent behavior toward close family members, pointing to disruptions in the abuser's "narcissistic equilibrium." The second section looks more broadly at the ideas of "batterer" and "victim," and the ways these categories…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/6/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Understanding the Batterer



Affect Regulation and Narcissistic Equilibrium



The Experience of Self and Other



Identification with the Aggressor



The Politics of the Batterer-Treatment Movement



Political Versus Clinical Determination of Abuse and Other Associations



Our Unwitting Persecution of the Batterer and Other Facile Conveniences



Treatment



Countertransference



Transference



Joining Techniques



Working Through: A Synthesis


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index