Treating Assaultive Men from an Attachment Perspective

By D. Sonkin, D. Dutton. 2003

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The weak evidence for batterer program alternatives (2011, background): “Attachment theoryhasbecome increasinglypopular in psychotherapy overall as a means to organize a variety of personality traits, emotional problems, and interaction patterns into a theoretical framework (see Sonkin & Dutton 2003).”
Early exposure to violence, domestic violence, attachment representations, and marital adjustment (2009, background): “As Sonkin and Dutton (2003) stated, clinicians have to pay more attention to the client’s inner psychological experience of relationships.”
Women who perpetrate intimate partner violence: A review of the literature with recommendations for treatment (2007, background): “Consequently, Sonkin and Dutton (2003) conclude that, “incorporating attachment theory into batterer treatment is well founded” (p. 110), which heavily influenced the study by Carney and Buttell (2005) by providing the conceptual framework for their investigation of attachment issue among female…”