The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence: The abusive personality as a disordered mental state

Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Sexual Minority People and Associated Factors: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies

“…In particular, an abusive personality (Landolt & Dutton, 1997), hostility, emotional instability, and a negative worldview (Pepper & Sand, 2015) as well as higher scores on the aggressive (sadistic), antisocial, avoidant, passive-aggressive, self-defeating, borderline, paranoid, and schizotypal personality scale and on the alcohol-dependent, drug-dependent, bipolar (manic syndrome), and delusional clinical syndrome scales (Fortunata & Kohn, 2003) were associated to couple violence perpetration. Although only few studies assessed the association between these variables and other research are needed, these preliminary findings seem to equate those emerged among heterosexual couples (Brasfield, 2014;Brem et al, 2018;Gildner et al, 2021;Spencer et al, 2019), highlighting the need to consider personality traits in clinical settings. Self-esteem was negatively associated to IPV perpetration as well.…”

Hombres violentos contra la pareja: ¿tienen un trastorno mental y requieren tratamiento psicológico?

“…por ello, la violencia contra la pareja puede considerarse algo anómalo. cuando un hombre se implica en una relación violenta con una mujer con la que comparte o ha compartido voluntariamente sentimientos de intimidad y un proyecto de vida y con la que frecuentemente tiene hijos en común, cabe pensar que padece algún tipo de transtorno mental o de alteración psicológica (Brasfield, 2014).…”