Citation

Johnston JR, Campbell LE. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1993; 63(2): 190-199.

Affiliation

Center for the Family in Transition, Corte Madera, Calif.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8484424

Abstract

From two studies of high-conflict divorcing families in child custody disputes, four characteristic profiles of interparental violence were identified: ongoing or episodic battering by males, female-initiated violence, interactive violence controlled by males, and violence engendered by separation or postdivorce trauma. A fifth profile, culled from a subsample of members of the first two groups, was characterized by psychotic and paranoid reactions.

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