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Free Download Joseph Scalia, "Intimate Violence: Attacks Upon Psychic Interiority"
English | 2002 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0231119844 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
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―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.