Walking Victims: Understanding and Treating Women Who Repeat the Cycle

The goal is to provide a tentative typology of females in terms of the particular types of abuse they experienced as children and the resultant symptomlogy. Realistic management and treatment strategies are then suggested. The categories proposed are not rigid: there may be considerable overlap, which is expected in view of the similarities in the backgrounds of these adult women.... It is the intention of this book that a deeper approach to specific subgroups of abused women will generate interest and research into more effective treatment approaches, and lead to a closer examination of simplistic formulae involving gender responsibility in abused relationships. --- excerpts from Introduction