Intimate violence attacks upon psychic interiority
Joseph Scalia.
- New York Columbia University Press c2002.
- x, 164 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-157) and index.
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.
0231119844 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231119852 (pbk.)
2001047365
Family violence--Prevention. Spouse Abuse--psychology. Domestic violence--psychology Battered Women--psychology. Domestic violence--prevention & control. Family violence--Psychological aspects. Wife abuse--Psychological aspects. Abusive men--Psychology.