Intimate Warfare

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.

Series Editor’s Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Domestic violence: characteristics and size , Together you will progress , The downward spiral of violence between partners , From ill-behaviour to relational behaviour , Escalation and de-escalation , Violence in families of various cultural backgrounds , The coherence between shame and violence , Rituals of revenge , The reproduction of violence , Of young rulers and the terror at home , The therapist as a person , Apprehensive heroes , Conclusion