Intimate Violence: A Study of Injustice

by Joseph Scalia and Julie Blackman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231119844
• ISBN13: 9780231119849
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher