The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body: Second Edition

Author(s) : Anna Motz

The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body: Second Edition

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2008
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 418
  • Category :
    Forensic
  • Category 2 :
    Clinical Psychology
  • Catalogue No : 26770
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415403870
  • ISBN 10 : 0415403871
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What are the causes of violence in women? What can be done to help these women and their victims? Why does society deny the fact of female violence? This book explores the nature and causes of female violence from the perspectives of psychodynamic theory and forensic psychology. This fully updated and expanded second edition explores developments in research and services for violent women. Recent high profile cases of female violence are discussed alongside clinical material and theory. The new topics include: the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, the controversy related to the diagnosis of Munchausens Syndrome by Proxy, Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder in women, and the impact of pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites.The new chapters address central clinical issues of working with women who kill and designing therapeutic services for women in secure mental health settings. Other major topics include: Women who sexually and physically abuse children; Infanticide; Fabricated and induced illness; and, Self Harm. "The Psychology of Female Violence" will be valuable to trainees and practitioners working in the fields of clinical and forensic psychology, womens studies, sociology, psychiatric nursing, social work, probation, counselling, psychoanalysis, the criminal justice system and criminology.

About the Author(s)

Anna Motz is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust working within Offender Care and a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with extensive experience of working with women with trauma and offending histories. She is the author of The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body and Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence, and the Editor of Managing Self Harm: Psychological Perspectives.

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