Engendered self-states: Dissociated affect, social discourse, and the forfeiture of agency in battered women

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-58

  Stein, Abby ^a  

^a Anthropology Department John Jay   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Domestic violence; Gender; Interpersonal psychoanalysis; Women and anger

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BATTERED WOMAN; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MASOCHISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL HOSTILITY; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84874454982     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: 19391331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024880     Document Type: Article

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