Intimate Violence: Attacks Upon Psychic Interiority

Joseph Scalia

March, 2002
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11984-9
$40.00 / £23.50

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

Related Subjects

• Social Work

About the Author

Joseph Scalia is a psychotherapist who has written articles for The Journal of Interpersonal Violence and Modern Psychoanalyst.

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