Intimate Violence Across the Lifespan - Interpersonal, Familial, and Cross-Generational Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)

Evidence pertaining to continual violence throughout the life cycle coupled with the experience of growing old in a life permeated by intimate violence is scarce. And the focus is usually on the victims usually, the older, battered women and seldom on their aging partners or adult children who were part and parcel of the violent dynamics in the family system. With the increase in longevity and the older population's subsequent growth in size, the number of elderly couples living and aging in long-lasting conflictive relationships is on the rise. The relatively intense preoccupation with elder abuse in the gerontological literature in recent years has not specifically addressed long-term intimate violence among the old adults and its lasting consequences. Similarly, the literature on intimate intergenerational relationships in old age has usually focused on normative exchanges between partners and their extended family, including their adult children. Therefore, conflictive relationships, and particularly violent ones, have also fallen outside the scope of this body of research. This volume describes and analyzes the various perspectives of family members concerning life, and particularly old age, in the shadow of long-term intimate violence. It explores how people make sense out of living and aging in violence, how interpersonal, familial and cross-generational relationships are perceived and reconstructed and how "we-ness" is achieved, if at all, in such families.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2014
Authors:	Tova Band-Winterstein • Zvi Eisikovits
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	137
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
ISBN-13:	978-1-4939-5231-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Geriatric medicine Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4939-5231-5
Barcode:	9781493952311

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