Intimate Partner Violence

Samuel Aymer is associate professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. For over twenty-five years, Aymer worked as a therapist in the field of intimate partner abuse with abused women and abusive men, as a group facilitator for batterers’ treatment programs, and as a director of training for programs designed to serve victims and abusers of intimate partner abuse and community violence. Moreover, he supervised counselors and therapists who served abused women, children, and abusive men. Currently, his research and scholarship center on the multiple ways in which intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the psychosocial needs of children, women, and men. Sociocultural factors germane to misogyny, race, culture, gender, and patriarchy underpin Aymer’s scholarly pursuits in researching and writing about intimate partner violence.

Chapter 1: Foundational Aspects of the Book
Chapter 2: Traditional Framing of IPV
Chapter 3: Psychological Linkages between Women’s Early Abuse History and IPV
Chapter 4: Boys' Exposure to IPV during Childhood
Chapter 5: Mothering and Motherhood in the Context of IPV
Chapter 6: Toxic Masculinity and Men who Batter
Chapter 7: Interventions with Abused Women
Chapter 8: Socio-Cultural Factors and IPV
Chapter 9: Men’s Work: A Call to Action towards Violence against Women and Girls
Chapter 10: Shared Vulnerability: Countertransferential Feelings, Reactions, and Self-Care