Introduction: constructing the script -- The violent event: from violent incidents to violent rituals -- In search of paradise lost: the aftermath of intimate violence -- Scripts of everyday life -- From emotions in violence to violent emotions -- The metaphoric understanding of violence -- Accounts of intimate violence -- Public exposure and private meaning: battered women's and battering men's interaction with social agents -- Guidelines for intevention -- Postscript: the end is the beginning
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index
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