Psychiatric Times Runs Truthful Article on DV
The leading psychiatric publication, Psychiatric Times, has just published a thoughtful, balanced article on domestic violence.
Authored by Arnold Robbins, MD, the article doesn’t pull punches when it comes to describing the harmful stereotypes pushed by the domestic violence industry:
“Men were seen as hopelessly aggressive by nature, predatory, and controlling. Many men reacted by joining the cause and becoming the “enforcers‖outdoing women in their zeal to protect womanhood and rid society of batterers at all costs. Other men reacted passively, unaccustomed to being adversarial toward women. And still others reacted sympathetically, but were outraged by the attack on civil liberties and constitutional rights such branding of men as batterers entailed, often with minimal due process. (“Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience†said a Vassar College Assistant Dean of Students). Many men felt themselves, as a group, being degraded and bashed, much as blacks had been a generation before– when, if you were black, you were a priori deemed capable of any crime, any aggression. Men felt themselves discredited–many of whom had fought for years, and through their families, for generations, for equality and justice for all.”
The article is especially appropriate to share with mental health professionals.
Source: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1546465?verify=0
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