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Intimate Violence : A Study of Injustice / Julie Blackman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231119849
  • 9780231506298
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8582
LOC classification:
  • HV6570.2
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. UNDERSTANDING THE BATTERER -- 1. Affect Regulation and Narcissistic Equilibrium -- 2. The Experience of Self and Other -- 3. Identification with the Aggressor -- PART 2. THE POLITICS OF THE BATTERER-TREATMENT MOVEMENT -- 4. Political Versus Clinical Determination of Abuse and Other Associations -- 5. Our Unwitting Persecution of the Batterer and Other Facile Conveniences -- PART 3. TREATMENT -- 6. Countertransference -- 7. Transference -- 8. Joining Techniques -- 9. Working Through: A Synthesis -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.Intimate Violence also 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. UNDERSTANDING THE BATTERER -- 1. Affect Regulation and Narcissistic Equilibrium -- 2. The Experience of Self and Other -- 3. Identification with the Aggressor -- PART 2. THE POLITICS OF THE BATTERER-TREATMENT MOVEMENT -- 4. Political Versus Clinical Determination of Abuse and Other Associations -- 5. Our Unwitting Persecution of the Batterer and Other Facile Conveniences -- PART 3. TREATMENT -- 6. Countertransference -- 7. Transference -- 8. Joining Techniques -- 9. Working Through: A Synthesis -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.Intimate Violence also 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)