Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2009
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 274
- Category :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Category 2 :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 25862
- ISBN 13 : 9781855755215
- ISBN 10 : 1855755211
About the Author(s)
Martine Groen is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, who has specialized in the effects of violence and trauma in families. She is also a trainer, consultant, coach and mediator in non-profit organisations. She consulted and trained traumatized women, families and organisations from 1995 to 2005 in former Yugaslavia, and took part in a conflict-resolutions scheme between various organisations in Bosnia. She has published several books on prostitution, intimate war, domestic violence, shame and violence.
Justine van Lawick is a clinical psychologist and registered psychotherapist specializing in systemic therapy, and has worked as a family therapist in adult psychiatry and child psychiatry. In 1984 she was co-founder of the LORENTZHUIS centre for systemic therapies, training and consultation in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Together with Martine Groen she developed a systemic model for conjoint work with family violence, and is a specialist in systemic work with violence problems in families. She has edited and published many papers and books.