NCJ Number
190740
Editor(s)
Barbara Jo Brothers
Date Published
2001
Length
136 pages
Annotation
These six articles examine the abuse of men, with emphasis on the trauma that men experience in association with being abusers, couple stress, systemic factors relating to abuse, the secondary traumatic stress affecting men whose partners experienced sexual abuse, and treatment issues.
Abstract
The first paper is a transcript of lectures on models of perceiving the world and how people experiencing difficulties define relationships in the form of a hierarchy. It considers the relationship between feelings of worthlessness and abuse, conflict, and being congruent. The second paper suggests that male partners of female survivors of child sexual abuse may become vicariously traumatized in long-term relationships with childhood abuse survivors. The third paper discusses ways in which a history of abuse might influence a man’s relationship with his wife or partner. The fourth paper reviews research on the incidence, prevalence, and characteristics of domestic assault committed by women against male intimates and concludes that the majority of abuse in intimate relationships involves mutual aggression and that women are as likely to assault partners as are men. The fifth paper explores the idea of men raising boys to be men as a potential site for abuse in the rearing of men and then creating abusive men. The sixth paper focuses on the treatment of couples with a collective personal history of multiple traumatic experiences. Note and chapter references lists