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Book Review: The Abuse of Men: Trauma Begets Trauma. Edited by Barbara Jo Brothers. New York: Haworth Press; 2001.119 pp. $17.95.
When asked to review this book, I was delighted. Having done antiviolence research and clinical work with women for over 20 years, in the past few years, I have felt the need to move beyond the dualistic "maleperpetrator; female-victim" stance and actively learn more about male victim/survivors. This book, however, is not a resource to help learn substantively about male victims.
The book was copublished as the Journal of Couples Therapy, Vol. 10 (2001), as is often the case of journals published by Haworth Press. However, there was no attempt by the editor, Barbara Jo Brothers, to pull the articles into a cohesive theme for the book; indeed, the book begins with a rather strange excerpt from a lecture by Virginia Satir. This choppily edited transcription of a lecture at a training seminar...