Locked in A Violent Embrace: Understanding and Intervening in Domestic Violence (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)

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. Practitioners In The Rapidly Expanding Field Of Domestic Violence Are In Need Of Better Alternatives And More Contemporary Solutions To Help Modern Couples Cope With The Reality Of Violence. The Authors Closely Examine The Lives Of Those Directly Affected By Domestic Violence And Outline Specific Guidelines For Intervention. Based On Data From The Last 12 Years Of Qualitative Studies And Clinical Practice, This Book Focuses On Couples Who Have Chosen To Remain Together In Spite Of The Violence Enveloping Their Relationships. The Approach Advocated In This Book Is Likely To Become An Important Part Of A New Wave Of Alternatives Available To Practitioners In The Coming Years.--jacket. 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's And Battering Men's Interaction With Social Agents -- Guidelines For Intevention -- Postscript: The End Is The Beginning. Zvi Eisikovits, Eli Buchbinder. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 167-170) And Index. 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, clinical practice with battered women and their batterers, and as champions of the cause of battered women. After 25 years, practitioners in the field are starting to question the original models of intervention. Both types of practitioners and settings for service are expanding rapidly. The approach advocated in this book is likely to become an important part of a new wave of alternatives available to practitioners in the coming years. This accessible, practical volume describes and analyzes the experience of violence in dyadic life by focussing on couples who choose to remain together in spite of violence, while trying to make sense of a life in the shadow of pain, guilt, terror, and humiliation. "Practitioners in the rapidly expanding field of domestic violence are in need of better alternatives and more contemporary solutions to help modern couples cope with the reality of violence. The authors closely examine the lives of those directly affected by domestic violence and outline specific guidelines for intervention. Based on data from the last 12 years of qualitative studies and clinical practice, this book focuses on couples who have chosen to remain together in spite of the violence enveloping their relationships. The approach advocated in this book is likely to become an important part of a new wave of alternatives available to practitioners in the coming years."--BOOK JACKET. This study draws upon data from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with numbers of batterers and battered women. It focusses on couples who choose to remain together and make sense of their life together, in spite of violence