Emotional Abuse: The Trauma And The Treatment

Description

This is a treatment model for the subtle but devastating impact of the pervasive, chronic, and ongoing process in which one individual systematically diminishes and destroys the inner self of another.

Marti Tamm Loring uses her own research and clinical work with emotionally abused women to explore the components of both overt and covert abuse and to map out for mental health practitioners a new model for its treatment.

Reviews

"Emotional Abuse breaks new ground in describing this little understood and acknowledged form of interpersonal mistreatment. Loring describes both overt and covert emotional abuse and makes crucial linkages to other types of abuse as well. Her intervention strategies are grounded in relational theory and give the therapist a practical approach to the assessment and treatment of the emotionally abused client." --Christine A. Courtois, clinical director, Center for Abuse Recovery & Empowerment, Psychiatric Institute of Washington, D.C.

"Emotional Abuse provides a clear road map for therapists to guide them through the intricacies of treating emotionally abused victims. Any therapist working with emotionally abused clients will find this a most useful text." --Jeffrey T. Mitchell, president, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation

 

Author description

MARTI TAMM LORING is a clinical social worker, sociologist, and director of the Center for Mental Health and Human Development and The Emotional Abuse Institute.

Table of contents

Emotional Abuse: An Overview. Differentiating Emotional Abuse. Attachment. The Trauma of Emotional Abuse. Theoretical Perspectives. A New Model of Therapy.