Paula Nicolson is Professor Emeritus, in the Department of Social Work at Royal Holloway, University of London, as well as a founder member of the British Psychological Society's Psychology of Women Section. She is a Fellow and chartered member of the BPS, Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and has worked as an academic psychologist since 1978. She is author of many psychology books and now also writes novels with a psychological theme.

Despite many changes to laws and policies intended to combat violence to women, intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) remains discouragingly commonplace.Domestic Violence and Psychology showcases women's harrowing stories of living with and leaving violent partners, offering a psychological perspective on domestic violence.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: The Context

Chapter 1: What is Intimate partner Violence and Abuse (IPVA)?

Chapter Two: IPVA: the material context

Chapter 3: Psychology, feminism and ideology: Moving forward

Part 2: Discursive constructions of domestic violence and abuse

Chapter 4: The social construction of IPVA: myths, legends and formula stories

Chapter 5: Public perceptions and moral tales

Part 3: (Re)turning to Intra-psychic Psychology

Chapter 6: Lived experience and the 'material-discursive-intra-psychic' self

Chapter 7: IPVA across generations: intra-psychic dimensions

Chapter 8: 'Doing' IPVA: Dilemmas of care and blame

References

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