Battered Woman Syndrome

By Lenore E. A. Walker. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006

933 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. D. Dutton
2. Tonia L. Nicholls
3. Michael Waldo
4. Alison C. Cares
5. J. McGarry
6. John R. Barner
7. C. Courtois
8. Renata Forste

In Gender Studies

1. D. Dutton
2. John R. Barner
3. Michelle Carney
4. Alison C. Cares
5. J. McGarry
6. C. Courtois
7. Renata Forste
8. P. Ali

In Health

1. D. Dutton
2. Michelle Carney
3. John R. Barner
4. Tonia L. Nicholls
5. Alison C. Cares
6. J. McGarry
7. C. Courtois
8. Renata Forste

Citations in the corpus

• Gender and the Seriousness of Assaults on Intimate Partners and Other Victims (2005, background): “Women's violence against male partners is often interpreted as self-defense, or attributed to battered wife syndrome, resulting from a long history of abuse (e.g., Browne, 1987; Goetting, 1995; Schwartz & DeKeseredy, 1993; Walker, 1984).”
• Disorders of extreme stress: The empirical foundation of a complex adaptation to trauma. (2005, background): “Prior to the conceptualization of PTSD, other posttraumatic syndromes were proposed, such as a rape trauma syndrome (Burgess & Holstrom, 1974) and a battered women’s syndrome (Walker, 1984).”
• Dating Violence Victimization, Relationship Satisfaction, Mental Health Problems, and Acceptability of Violence: A Comparison of Men and Women (2007, result): “Validity for this scale is consistent with the original CTS, which has been well established in a number of studies on violent relationships (Bullcroft and Straus 1975; Steinmetz 1977; Walker 1984).”
• Best Practice Guidelines on Prevention Practice, Research, Training, and Social Advocacy for Psychologists (2007, background): “Studies that focus exclusively on the pathology of battered women inappropriately suggest that the problem lies within the female victims, rather than acknowledging the impact of the social oppression they experience (Walker, 1984).”
• The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and theory: Part 1—The conflict of theory and data (2005, background): “The self defense debate: Female intimate violence is defensive Walker (1984) and Saunders (1988) acknowledged presence of female violence but argued that it was defensive or, in some cases, a pre-emptive strike.”
• Complex trauma, complex reactions: Assessment and treatment. (2004, background): “…number of posttraumatic syndromes in the various populations under study: rape trauma syndrome (Burgess & Holmstrom, 1974), battered woman syndrome (Walker, 1979, 1984), child abuse/sexual abuse trauma (Briere, 1984, 1987; Finkelhor, 1985), and incest trauma (Courtois , 1979a, 1979b; Herman &…”