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by: Donald G. Dutton
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8582
EAN: 9781572303706
ISBN: 1572303700
Label: The Guilford Press
Manufacturer: The Guilford Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 214
Publication Date: August 06, 1998
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Sales Rank: 697363
Studio: The Guilford Press
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Product Description:
Physical violence may be the most overt manifestation of relationship abuse, but maltreatment of intimate partners takes many other forms as well. This integrative work explores the nature of male abusiveness by focusing on the development of a particular personality constellation--one that is easily threatened, jealous, and fearful, and that masks these emotions with anger and demands for control. Presenting results of controlled research with over 400 batterers, Dutton shows that many abusers exhibit high levels of trauma symptoms. This symptomatology is cogently linked to elements of childhood experience including witnessing of violence, the use of shaming techniques by parents, and insecure attachment; and, in turn, to such characteristics as terror of abandonment and the inability to regulate one's emotions or deal with conflict effectively. A concluding chapter focuses on treatment.
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Rating:  - Excellent addition to our cache of literature on abuse
Learned behavior truly IS only part of the recipe for making an abuser. Attachment has been known to be crucial to social development and quality of relationships for many years (from Ainsworth and Bowlby to the present), so it is wonderful for one book to tie in the research. Wonderful asset for all counselors.
Rating: - Understanding Abuse
This book has excellent qualities and well-developed research is included within. This book is excellent for domestic violence counselors and those in the criminal justice field. It is an excellent asset for any library--and it has been quite an asset for my thesis!
Rating: - An asset to the library
Excellent as an additional resource, but not a stand alone reference textbook. Should be in every therapists office!
Rating:  - Must read book for avocate and professional alike!
The Abusive Personality is simply the best book written on domestic violence perpetrators and one of the best on the entire field of psychology. Dutton has integrated a variety of psychological perspectives (attachment theory, object relations, social learning theory, trauma reactions) into a compelling and well reasoned profile of the development and behavior of abusive men. Dutton was the Prosecution expert in the OJ Simpson trial. If you read this book, you'll wish he had taken the stand.
Rating: - The Abusive Personality by Donald G. Dutton
What an excellent book! It goes step by step into what leads up to an abusive personality. I was also impressed by his mentioning that a battering relationship is like a hostage relationship, and the dynamics of that. I learned a lot. I feel that this would be a wonderful textbook. Easy to read, simple and to the point, and a lot of information in a fairly short book
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