Family systems approaches to wife battering: A feminist critique.

Abstract

It is suggested that, in theory and practice, family systems approaches to wife battering contain biases against women. Following a selective review of family systems literature on wife battering, systemic formulations of husband-to-wife violence are critically examined. Possible contraindications of conjoint therapy with battered women and abusive men are discussed.

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Loose ends

“…The degree to which family therapists tend to think of the shift towards a more collaborative stance as a constructivist development may be the same to which the field is not quite willing to recognize the vigorous impact of feminism's critique of cybernetics (e.g. Bograd, 1984;Hare-Mustin, 1978).…”

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