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Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Attachment and Neuro-Science

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Damasio, A. (1999). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt Brace.

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Dutton, D. G., & Nicholls, T. L.(2005) The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and theory. Part 1: the conflict of theory and data. Aggression and Violent Behavior. 10, 680-714.  

Dutton, D. G., Nicholls, T. L., & Spidel, A. (2005).  Female perpetrators of intimate abuse.  Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 41 (4) 1-31. 

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Hamby, Sherry, Finkelhor, David, Turner, Heather and Ormrod, Richard (2010). The overlap of witnessing partner violence with child maltreatment and other victimizations in a nationally prepresentative survey of youth. Child Abuse and Neglect. 34, pp. 734-741.

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Milkulincer, M., & Shaver, P. (2001). Attachment theory and intergroup bias: Evidence that priming the secure base schema attenuates negative reactions to out-groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 97-115.

Mikulincer, M. and Shaver, P. (2007). Attachment in adulthood: Structure, dynamics and change. New York: Guilford Press.

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