Locked in A Violent Embrace Understanding and Intervening in Domestic Violence [Paperback]

Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with battered women and their batterers.Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with battered women and their batterers.Introduction
Constructing the Script
The Violent Event
From Violent Incidents to Violent Rituals
In Search of Paradise Lost
The Aftermath of Intimate Violence
Scripts of Everyday Life
From Emotions in Violence to Violent Emotions
The Metaphoric Understanding of Violence
Accounts of Intimate Violence
Public Exposure and Private Meaning
Battered Women and Battering Men Interaction with Social Agents
Guidelines for Intervention
Postscript
The End Is the Beginning