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Domestic violence and psychology : critical perspectives on intimate partner violence and abuse /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicolson, Paula
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Edition:Second Edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The context
  • What is intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA)?
  • IPVA : the material context
  • Psychology, feminism and ideology : moving forward
  • Discursive constructions of domestic violence and abuse
  • The social construction of IPVA : myths, legends and formula stories
  • Public perceptions and moral tales
  • (re)turning to intra-psychic psychology
  • Lived experience and the "material-discursive-intra-psychic" self
  • IPVA across generations : intra-psychic dimensions
  • "doing" IPVA: dilemmas of care and blame
  • References
  • Endnotes.