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Intimate Violence
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 Violencemoves 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 -- and the social stigma and support accorded respectively -- may impede healing and resolution. The third section addresses various treatment methods that promise permanent changes in batterers' behavior.
Intimate Violencealso deals frankly with the dynamics of the therapist/client relationship in battery cases, particularly transference and countertransference. How do therapists deal with feelings of revulsion for the batterer's behavior, or for the batterer him- or herself? How do they resist the very human urge within themselves to punish their clients? Scalia persuasively argues that these issues subtly undermine counseling, causing resistance to develop within both parties, and that a new approach to therapy is needed. His analysis suggests that \"emotional communication\" in the context of prolonged and deep psychoanalysis enables patient and practitioner alike to transcend cycles of recrimination and defensiveness.
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The apology
\"This book, The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear attempts to transform the abuse she suffered, with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and a expansive vision for the future. Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally imagine how to be free. In it, she grapples with questions she has sought answers to since she began to understand the impact of her father's abuse on her life: How do we offer a doorway rather than only a locked cell? How do move from humiliation to revelation, from curtailing behavior to changing it, from condemning perpetrators to calling them to reckoning? The Apology is a remarkably original book that explores the deepest and most intimate questions that can be asked at this moment: Why do men carry out abuse, often against the people they know and love the most? How can we--together--stop it? What does it mean to apologize for these acts? What will it take for the men who have committed abuse to make a deep reckoning and actually apologize? As Tony Porter from A Call to Men says, \"We've called men out, now how do we call them in?\" The Apology is an acutely transformational book--about how, from the wounds of sexual abuse, we can begin to re-emerge and heal. It is a revolutionary book asking everything of each of us: courage, truthfulness, and forgiveness\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Goodbye, sweet girl : a story of domestic violence and survival
\"...a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse--examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of physical and emotional pain, and how she eventually broke free.\"--Amazon.com.
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The abusive personality : violence and control in intimate relationships
This influential book provides an innovative framework for understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a learned pattern of behavior--it is the outgrowth of a particular personality configuration. He illuminates the development of the abusive personality from early childhood to adulthood and presents an evidence-based treatment approach designed to meet this population's unique needs. The second edition features two new chapters on the neurobiological roots of abusive behavior and the development of abusiveness in females.
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What causes men's violence against women?
This book uses various theoretical perspectives to summarize what is known about the multiple causes of men's violence against women, and stresses the importance of identifying men's risk factors. The preliminary multivariate model identifies four content areas: macrosocietal; biological; gender role socialization; and relational factors to explain men's violence against women. Within these four content areas the editors develop thirteen preliminary hypotheses about the causes of men's violence against women, which are critiqued by the contributors in the subsequent chapters.
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The batterer as parent : addressing the impact of domestic violence on family dynamics
Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective this book offers a view that takes into account the complex ways in which a batterer′s abusive and controlling behaviors are woven into the fabric of daily life.
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Been a Heavy Life
In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life
stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She applies insights
from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared
their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those
who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly. Been a
Heavy Life provides the discipline of criminology with two
crucial frameworks: one for critically evaluating the construction
of offenders' own stories, and one for grasping the cultural
meta-narratives that legitimize violence. For social scientists
generally, this book offers a vivid demonstration of just how
dynamic and contingent self-narratives are.
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Are men’s gender equality beliefs associated with self-reported intimate partner violence perpetration? A state-level analysis of California men
To assess the association between gender equality beliefs and self-reported intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among California men.
We analyzed men's data (N = 3609) from three waves (2021, 2022, and 2023) of cross-sectional data from a statewide sample of California adults. We assessed gender equality beliefs using a three-item measure adapted from the World Values Survey, with higher scores representing more gender unequal beliefs (e.g., 'On a whole, men make better political leaders than women'). We assessed IPV perpetration in the last year by asking a) whether men committed any form of violence in the last year (physical violence, use or threat of violence with a weapon, sexual violence) and b) among those who reported committing violence, who they committed violence against. Those reporting violence against \"a spouse or romantic partner\" were categorized as perpetrating past-year IPV. Analyses were weighted to yield population estimates. Crude and adjusted logistic regression models evaluated the association between gender equality beliefs and past-year IPV perpetration.
Almost 2% of men-equivalent to more than 280,000 men in California-reported IPV perpetration in the past year [1.9% (95%CI = 1.4-2.5)], and every one-point increase in their gender equality belief scale score [indicative of less gender equitable beliefs] was associated with 2.1 times greater odds of perpetrating past-year IPV (AOR: 2.14, 95%CI 1.61-2.86).
Findings support prior research indicating that patriarchal beliefs reinforce men's violence against women in relationships and signal a need for violence prevention efforts focused on boys and men to that can include normative belief shifts related to women's capacities.
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