Vulnerability to Violence: Masochism as Process

Natalie Shainess, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 33, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.2.174

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The recent growth of violence toward women, including rape, assault, wife-battering, and marital rape, has raised questions of whether any personality trait or psychological difficulty furthers their vulnerability. Freud’s concept of feminine masochism is re-examined and translated into a culturally determined process which, if properly understood, could be changed to help women prevent or at least reduce their own victimization.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 33 • Number 2 • 1979, pp. 159–327

Pages: 174 - 189

PubMed: 453383

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Published in print: 1979, pp. 159–327

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Natalie Shainess, M.D.^†

New York, N.Y.

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Presented at the Fourteenth National Scientific Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, Atlanta, Georgia, May 7, 1978.

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Faculty, William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Mailing address: 140 East 83 Street, New York, N.Y. 10028.

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Vulnerability to Violence: Masochism as Process

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