The many faces of abuse : treating the emotional abuse of high-functioning women / by Joan Lachkar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lachkar, Joan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychological abuse.

Psychologically abused women.

Abusive men.

Personality disorders.

Marital psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 208 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, [1998]

Summary:

Many women who are on top of the world at work are diminished to a state of helplessness and victimization at home. Such women, contends noted author Joan Lachkar, are emotionally abused, high-functioning women. By delineating the behavior of both abuser and abused and the magnetic pull between them, Dr. Lachkar uncovers a little-explored dynamic system underlying many women's experiences of pain and desperation. Lachkar shows that these victims of abuse are forced to react with defenses that prove to be as debilitating as the abuse itself: withdrawal, hopelessness, guilt, shame, and psychosomatic illness. In this book, Dr. Lachkar enables readers to reach an understanding of what constitutes emotional abuse and learn how to recognize and treat it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-202) and index.

ISBN:

0765700654

OCLC:

36143595