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An update on intimate partner violence and mental health

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: MiNerVa Psichiatrica 1 types and values.3 Only recently have Western societies started focusing attention on iPV, shifting from considering it as a family private matter to a public one, and recognizing it as an expression of power, control, oppression and discrimination.4 Despite the social and cultural changes that have occurred over the last few years and the increase in equal opportunities policies, such intentional violation of victim dignity and personality integrity remains a widespread phenomenon, affecting an intoler-

Source: Minerva Psychiatry

DOI: 10.23736/s0391-1772.17.01943-4