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The Battered Woman Syndrome: 3rd edition Editor: Lenore E. A. Walker Springer Publishing Company, LLC. US$51.70 (pb); pp488; ISBN 978-0-8261-4315-0
Violence against women and girls causes pain, disability, and death to an untold number of individuals every day, in every country in the world. Battered woman syndrome (BWS) was first used in the title to a US National Institute of Mental Health research grant in 1977. Since the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980, BWS has been used in the psychological literature as a subcategory of post-traumatic stress disorder. Walker's pathfinder book The Battered Woman Syndrome has provided a state-of-theart perspective on the field of domestic violence for the last 30 years.
This concept-driven book is divided into 2 sections. The first section, comprising the initial 8 chapters, discusses general topics relating to BWS, including the definition and description of domestic violence, risk assessment, and sexuality issues. In the second section, special topics focus on attachment issues for battered women and the men who batter them, substance abuse and addiction, women in prison, and battered women who kill their abusive partners...