Intimate violence :

Scalia, Joseph.

Intimate violence : attacks upon psychic interiority / Joseph Scalia. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2002. - x, 164 p. ; 24 cm.

Include 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.)


Family violence--Prevention.
Abusive men--Psychology.
Wife abuse--Psychological aspects.
Family violence--Psychological aspects.

RC569.5.F3 / Sc1
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