“…Research and clinical literature demonstrate that women who undergo physical or sexual abuse have a history of more suicide attempts and self-inflicted injury than women who were not victims of violence (Etzel, 2006;MaKeganet, Neale, & Robertson, 2005;Maniglio, 2011) a higher tendency to develop eating disorders (Franko & Keel, 2006;Treuer, Koperdak, Rozsa, & Furedi, 2005), a higher frequency of addictive drug use (Segal, 2001;Somer, 2003;Zickler, 2002), somatic disorders (Ullman & Brecklin, 2003) and depression (Csoboth, Birkas, & Purebl, 2005), more dissociative symptoms (Somer, 2003;Sta & Elaine, 2005) and signs of PTSD (Filipas & Ullman, 2006;Sharhabani-Arzy, Amir, Kotler, & Liran, 2003). Moreover, they suffer from a negative body image and low self-esteem (Eubanks, Kenkel, & Gardner, 2006) as well as more borderline personality disorders (Lobbestael, Arntz, & Bernstein, 2010) than women with no history of abuse.…”