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This influential book provides an innovative framework for
understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a
variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton
demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a learned
pattern of behavior--it is the outgrowth of a particular
personality configuration. He illuminates the development of the
abusive personality from early childhood to adulthood and presents
an evidence-based treatment approach designed to meet this
population's unique needs. The second edition features two new
chapters on the neurobiological roots of abusive behavior and the
development of abusiveness in females.
Rethinking Domestic Violence is the third in a series of books by
Donald Dutton critically reviewing research in the area of intimate
partner violence (IPV). The research crosses disciplinary lines,
including social and clinical psychology, sociology, psychiatry,
affective neuropsychology, criminology, and criminal justice
research. Since the area of IPV is so heavily politicized, Dutton
tries to steer through conflicting claims by assessing the best
research methodology. As a result, he comes to some very new
conclusions. These conclusions include the finding that IPV is
better predicted by psychological rather than social-structural
factors, particularly in cultures where there is relative gender
equality. Dutton argues that personality disorders in either gender
account for better data on IPV. His findings also contradict
earlier views among researchers and policy makers that IPV is
essentially perpetrated by males in all societies. Numerous studies
are reviewed in arriving at these conclusions, many of which employ
new and superior methodologies than were available previously.
After twenty years of viewing IPV as generated by gender and
focusing on a punitive "law and order" approach, Dutton argues that
this approach must be more varied and flexible. Treatment
providers, criminal justice system personnel, lawyers, and
researchers have indicated the need for a new view of the problem
-- one less invested in gender politics and more open to
collaborative views and interdisciplinary insights. Dutton's
rethinking of the fundamentals of IPV is essential reading for
psychologists, policy makers, and those dealing with the sociology
of social science, the relationship of psychology to law, and
explanations of adverse behaviour.
Chronicling horrific events that brought the 20th century to
witness the largest number of systematic slaughters of human beings
in any century across history, this work goes beyond historic
details and examines contemporary psychological means that leaders
use to convince individuals to commit horrific acts in the name of
a politial or military cause. Massacres in Nanking, Rwanda, El
Salvador, Vietnam, and other countries are reviewed in chilling
detail. But the core issue is what psychological forces are behind
large- scale killing; what psychology can be used to indoctrinate
normal people with a Groupthink that moves individuals to mass
murder brutally and without regret, even when the victims are
innocent children. Dutton shows us how individuals are convinced to
commit such sadistic acts, often preceded by torture, after being
indoctrinated with beliefs that the target victims are unjust,
inhuman or "viral," like a virus that must be destroyed or it will
destroy society.
This influential book provides an innovative framework for
understanding and treating intimate partner violence. Integrating a
variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, Donald G. Dutton
demonstrates that male abusiveness is more than just a learned
pattern of behavior--it is the outgrowth of a particular
personality configuration. He illuminates the development of the
abusive personality from early childhood to adulthood and presents
an evidence-based treatment approach designed to meet this
population's unique needs. The second edition features two new
chapters on the neurobiological roots of abusive behavior and the
development of abusiveness in females.
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