Men Who Batter Women

Violence against women in the home is a major social problem. Most published work understandably concentrates on the victims, butMen Who Batter Womenlooks at the perpetrators. Considering both feminist approaches to male violence and those perspectives that treat such violent behavior as pathological, Adam Jukes explores how depth psychology can be used to treat men who batter women. Examining such questions as how abusive men rationalize their actions and the nature of their self-concept, Jukes analyzes the roots of battering in the male personality and suggests the implications for the clinical treatment of batterers. His findings will be of great interest and importance to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers and all professionals who work with both the perpetrators and victims of domestic violence.