The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women

by Joan Lachkar

The subject is emotional abuse-the ongoing process whereby one person attempts to destroy the will, needs, desires, or perceptions of another. The object is the well-educated, high-functioning professional woman. Dr. Joan Lachkar examines the origins and early warning signs of the psychological violation she describes as a dance between abuser and abused. She goes on to introduce typologies of each (the narcissistic or passive-aggressive abuser, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765700654
• ISBN13: 9780765700650
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"