Search On-Line Library: Violence at the Door: Treatment of Lesbian Batterers
Title:      Violence at the Door: Treatment of Lesbian Batterers
Authors:      Liz Margolies and Elaine Leeder
ISBN-10(13):      ODVN
Publisher:      Violence Against Women Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1995
Publication date:      June 1995
Language:      English
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Description:      In this article, the authors present their clinical experience with more than 30 lesbian batterers in a large city and a small rural community.  Data are offered on the psychological profile of batterers and relationships in which abuse occurs.  Two treatment models are described; group therapu and a three-phase community model.  The authors suggest that lesbian batterers are women who have broken the norm of  compliant victim, running counter to the developmental expectations of female survivors of childhood family violence.