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Citation
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Raveesh BN, Rai S, Kaur D, Bandyopadhyay D, Gautam A, Shetty J, Parmar JM. Indian J. Psychiatry 2022; 64(Suppl 1): S134-S145. |
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Abstract
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"Domestic Violence" (DV) is defined in the protection of women from DV act as "any act of commission or omission or conduct resulting in physical, verbal, emotional, sexual and economic abuse" and this can range from calling names, insulting, humiliating, controlling behavior, physical violence to sexual violence (PWD A, 2005).[1] Domestic violence is more than physical injury from a single incident of assault. It is a pattern of conduct that uses physical battering as a method to inflict trauma (Tripathy and Arora, 2014).[2]
DV is often used as a synonym for intimate partner violence, which is committed by a spouse or partner in an intimate relationship against the other spouse or partner, and can take place in heterosexual or same-sex relationships, or between former spouses or partners (Ellsberg, 2008).[3]
"DV" includes elaborately all forms of actual abuse or threat of abuse of physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and economic nature that can harm, cause injury to, endanger the health, safety, life, limb, or well-being, either mental or physical of the aggrieved person (Choudary, 2013).[4]
The person who is the abuser may be a man or a woman and the person who is being abused may be a spouse, a child, or a parent. However, most situations of DV involve violence of men against their wives or female companions. DV often involves sexual abuse and it may also be linked to economic deprivation of the wife or other dependent household members. This type of economic abuse coupled with repeated intimidation is a form of DV even if it does not involve physical aggression or harm. DV of men against women is much more common than the reverse, but we must be aware that we may occasionally encounter abused husbands (Ghosh and Choudari, 2015)...
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