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Locked in a violent embrace
by Eisikovits, Zvi, Buchbinder, Eli
fromSAGE series on violence against women
This study draws upon data from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with numbers of batterers and battered women. It focusses on couples who choose to remain together and make sense of their life together, in spite of violence.
The authors describe and analyze the experience of couples who chose to remain together in spite of violence, while trying to make sense of the pain guilt, terror and humiliation.
Representing an entirely new approach to domestic violence interventions, this book is based on data accumulated by the authors over the past 12 years from a series of qualitative studies and clinical practice with battered women and their batterers.
"Practitioners in the rapidly expanding field of domestic violence are in need of better alternatives and more contemporary solutions to help modern couples cope with the reality of violence. The authors closely examine the lives of those directly affected by domestic violence a…