Search results for "Intimate"

Homing blogs as ambivalent spaces for feminine agency

2017

This article discusses a form of lifestyle blogging where women blog about their homes and everyday lives. In these homing blogs, selfrepresentations are characteristically spatially demarcated within the private sphere of the home. As these repeated representations of women in their homes take place in the public space of the internet, homing blogs work towards naturalizing the home as a women’s sphere. Written and commented on mostly by other women, homing blogs represent a feminine form of self-expression and communication that functions as a discursive expression of ongoing social, economic, and cultural changes in affluent Western societies. In this article, Finnish versions of these h…

Positions constructed for a female therapist in male batterers' treatment groups

2010

The aim of this study was to examine how male batterers regard to a female therapist in their group treatment. Of interest were the socially constructed positions for a female therapist. This study intends to examine what kind of positions the batterers construct for a female therapist in their speech and how the female therapist reacts to invitations to take up these positions. Attention was paid also to the male therapist’s positions in these situations. The topic was approached from a social constructionist and discourse analytic point of view and Grounded Theory was used as the method of analysing the data. The data consisted of five therapy groups for male batterers, each of which gath…

Towards gender awareness in couple therapy and in treatment of intimate partner violence

2017

Gender is the most pervasive classification of individuals and thus strongly defines couple relationships. Cultural discourses on couple relationships reproduce hierarchical gender differences, and couple distress is often linked to gendered power inequalities. At worst, gender is the basis for intimate partner violence (IPV). Generally, however, therapeutic interventions do not address the issues of gender and gendered power. This paper discusses the meaning and functions of gender in the context of couple therapy, in particular for IPV. It is argued that the therapist needs to be skilled in discursive deconstruction to be able not only to address the client’s situation as an individual ex…

Discussions on intimate partner violence and electrodermal activity in couple therapy

2016

Tutkimuksemme tarkoituksena oli tarkastella, kuinka paljon parisuhdeväkivallasta puhutaan pariterapiassa, mitä ja kuinka osallistujat puhuvat siitä sekä kuinka osallistujien ihon sähkönjohtavuus liittyy väkivaltakeskusteluihin. Tutkimukseemme kuului neljä paria ja heidän terapeuttinsa, ja parit olivat hakeutuneet terapiaan parisuhdeväkivallan vuoksi. Tarkastellessamme teemoja ja keskustelukäytäntöjä käytimme temaattista analyysia ja diskurssianalyysia. Ihon sähkönjohtavuuden osalta puolestaan tarkastelimme, onko osallistujien välillä eroja keskiarvoissa, piikkien määrässä ja osuuksissa sekä synkroniassa. Tuloksemme osoittivat, että vaikka väkivallasta puhuttiin melko vähän terapiassa, uhrit…

Applying functional analysis for studying intimately violent men

2008

Neuropsychological and psychophysiological profile of intimate partner violence perpetrators men: the role of alcohol

2018

La violencia contra la mujer en las relaciones de pareja hombre-mujer, representa un grave problema de salud pública a nivel mundial. En los últimos años, una mayor evidencia científica sustenta la relación entre la violencia contra la mujer y el consumo de alcohol. Sin embargo, existe un vacío en la literatura sobre los efectos que ejerce el consumo de alcohol sobre las variables neuropsicológicas y psicofisiológicas en los hombres que han cometido violencia contra la mujer. El consumo de alcohol podría predisponer a los agresores a presentar alteraciones cognitivas que afecten a su regulación emocional y comportamental y, por tanto, predisponer a conductas violentas en situaciones estresa…