The The Abusive Personality

Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships

Donald G. Dutton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

1998
Guilford Publications (Verlag)
978-1-57230-370-6 (ISBN)

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Physical violence may be the most overt manifestation of relationship abuse, but maltreatment of intimate partners takes many other forms as well. This integrative work explores the nature of male abusiveness by focusing on the development of a particular personality constellation - one that is easily threatened, jealous and fearful, and that masks these emotions with anger and demands for control. Presenting results of controlled research with over 400 batterers, Donald Dutton shows that many abusers exhibit high levels of trauma symptoms. This symptomatology is cogently linked to elements of childhood experience including witnessing of violence, the use of shaming techniques by parents and insecure attachment and, in turn, to such characteristics as terror of abandonment and the inability to regulate one's emotions or deal with conflict effectively. A concluding chapter focuses on treatment. This text should be of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, family therapists, social workers, forensic professionals, and students and researchers in these areas.

Donald G. Dutton, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His previous books include The Domestic Assault of Women and The Batterer. Dr. Dutton has served as an expert witness in several prominent legal cases involving domestic abuse and spousal homicide, including the O. J. Simpson case.

Introduction. Early Explanations. Learning of Abusiveness. The Psychology of the Cycle of Violence. The Structure of the Abusive Personality. Object Relations and the Origins of Rage. An Anger Born of Fear: Attachment Rage. The Early Antecedents Studies. The Treatment of Assaultiveness.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.9.1998
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-57230-370-0 / 1572303700
ISBN-13	978-1-57230-370-6 / 9781572303706
Zustand	Neuware