Ritual and Performance in Domestic Violence Healing: From Survivor to Thriver Through Rites of Passage

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-101

  Wozniak, Danielle F ^a   Allen, Karen Neuman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Healing; Narrative; Performance; Ritual

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; SYMBOLISM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84857686625     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-011-9236-9     Document Type: Article

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