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
Endnotes