Intimate violence : attacks upon psychic interiority /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scalia, Joseph
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
Subjects:	Family violence > Prevention. Abusive men > Psychology. Wife abuse > Psychological aspects. Family violence > Psychological aspects. Domestic Violence > prevention & control. Battered Women > psychology. Domestic Violence > psychology. Spouse Abuse > psychology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

pt. 1: Understanding the batterer. Affect regulation and narcissistic equilibrium. The experience of self and other. Identification with the aggressor
pt. 2: 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
pt. 3: Treatment. Countertransference. Transference. Joining techniques. Working through: A synthesis.