Triggering rage: Unresolved trauma in women's lives

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-139

  Flemke, Kimberly ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse and violence; Childhood abuse; Intimate partner violence; IPV; PTSD; Trauma and violence; Women offenders; Women's rage; Women's trauma; Women's violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749197296     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: 15733335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10591-009-9084-8     Document Type: Article

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