C.
Doan
UWRT 1104
1 November 2017
Double Entry Journal
Citation:
Jacobson, Neil S, and John M. Gottman. When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending
Abusive Relationships. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Print.
Source: Quote (Page# or Paragraph #)
We knew that we had to be careful,
because not all factors that predict these
changes are easily translatable into advice
for batter women (page 32).
The risk of severe assault, and even
homicide, increases dramatically when
battered women leave their abusive
partners (page 32).
The purpose of battering is to control,
intimidate, and subjugate ones intimate
partner through the use or the threat of
physical aggression (page 35).
[Third], after being subjected to physical
and emotional abuse for a period of time,
women are systematically stripped of their
self-esteem (page 50).
In this way, we suspected that emotional
abuse can come to serve the same
controlling function that physical abuse
does (page 23).
Responses
When responding or helping a victim of abuse
I feel like it is very important to be careful of
your every action and advice. They can be
fragile and take things the wrong way.
In some cases, advising a victim to leave the
relationship can be life threatening. Each
case is different, but abusive partners are
known to be control freaks.
Perpetrators ways of thinking is that they
must be in control. They are the dominant
ones and they call the shots. It is a mere
belief of theirs that triggers this violence.
Having to live through any type of abuse or
violence eventually will change the way the
victim thinks and acts. Victims will feel weak
and useless without their abusive partners,
only because that is what the abusers instilled
in their minds.
Emotional abuse can be just as or even more
threatening as physical form.