Intimate Partner Violence

Samuel R. Aymer, PhD, is associate professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. For over twenty-five years, Dr. Aymer worked as a therapist in the field of intimate partner abuse with abused women and abusive men, as a group facilitator for batterers’ treatment programs, and as a director of training for programs designed to serve victims and abusers of intimate partner abuse and community violence. He also supervised counselors and therapists who served abused women, children, and abusive men. Currently, his research and scholarship center on the multiple ways in which IPV affects the psychosocial needs of children and adults, as well as the application of psychodynamic theories in clinical work with diverse client populations.

Acknowledgments
Preface
1 The Traditional Framing of Intimate Partner Violence
2 Sociocultural and Intersectional Factors Underlying IPV: Centering Black and Brown Women
3 Women’s Formative Experiences and Exposure to IPV in the Family: An Object Relations Framework
4 Adolescent Males’ Exposure to IPV: Practice Issues
5 Mothering and Motherhood in the Context of IPV
6 Toxic Masculinity and Men Who Batter
7 A Self-Psychological Frame for Working with an Abused Woman
8 Men’s Work: A Call to Action Concerning Violence against Women and Girls
9 Shared Vulnerability: Countertransferential Reactions, Supervision, and Self-Care
Appendix 1: Key IVP Terms
Appendix 2: A Biopsychosocial Assessment Framework for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Cases Involving Cisgender Women
Appendix 3: A Biopsychosocial Assessment Framework for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Cases Involving Cisgender Men
References
Index