Faces Of Abuse: Portrait Of A Couple A Psychoanalytic Study Of The Film: A Woman Under The Influence Anita Weinreb Katz, Ph.D. The ground-breaking film A Woman Under the Influence, written and directed by John Cassevetes, came out in 1974, long before domestic abuse became a prominent issue. It portrays a woman and man struggling with inner and outer demons for psychic survival, for connectedne...

We know little about what causes divorce in contexts outside of the West. This paper focuses on marital dissolution in a rural, agrarian context of Nepal that has recently experienced a great deal of social change. Marriage in this context is highly valued, with farreaching significance for not only the husband and wife but also for their extended families. Marital dissolutions due to separatio...

This study examined the ideologies and conditions that are creating women's vulnerability to spousal abuse in the Asian Indian community in the US. The study focused on the multiple factors involved in Asian Indian women's experiences of domestic violence in the US: their minority status, life as an immigrant, and pressures to preserve a flawless public image of their community. The data were...

Exposure to violence in the family-of-origin has consistently been linked to intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration in adulthood. However, whether the transmission of violence across generations is role- and gender-specific still remains unclear. The current study examined the effects of experiencing child abuse and observing parental violence on IPV perpetration among a sample of male ar...

A 1993 national poll found that 34% of adults in the United States report having witnessed a man beating his wife or girlfriend and that 14% of women report that a husband or boyfriend has been violent with them (1). Studies suggest that as many as 30% of women treated in emergency departments (EDs) have injuries or symptoms related to physical abuse (2). A national health objective for the yea...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our purpose was to assess medical students' willingness to help women survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its relation to past exposure to violence. METHODS A cross-sectional study of medical students enrolled in three major universities in Beirut was carried out: 545 students filled out a self-administered questionnaire. The Inventory of Beliefs About W...

One area of increasing narcotics distribution and abuse was the coast East Aceh, Aceh Province. This led to heads household becoming prisoners. The head household’s imprisonment directly affected their families’ welfare. wives would be forced replace role despite limited education, skills capital for performing business. research aimed examine protection women (wives) children; effort local gov...