Suggested Reading


David Adams, Why Do They Kill?  Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners (Vanderbilt University Press, 2007)

Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?  Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Berkley Publishing Group, 2002)

Lundy Bancroft, When Dad Hurts Mom: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse (Berkley Publishing Group, 2004)

Beverly Engel, Breaking the Cycle of Abuse: How to Move beyond Your Past to Create an Abuse-Free Future (John Wiley & Sons, 2004)

Beverly Engel, The Emotionally Abused Woman: Overcoming Destructive Patterns and Reclaiming Yourself (Fawcett Books, 1992)

Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond (Adams Media Corporation, 1992, 1996)

Lisa A Goodman, Deborah Epstein, and Judith L. Herman, Listening to Battered Women: A Survivor-Centered Approach to Advocacy, Mental Health, and Justice (American Psychological Association, 2008)

Barrie Levy, In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1993, 1997)

Barrie Levy and Patricia Occhiuzzo Giggans, What Parents Need to Know about Dating Violence: Advice and Support for Helping Your Teen (Seal Press, 1995)

Susan Weitzman, Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages (Basic Books, 2000)
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