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The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body
by Anna Motz (Foreword: Estela Welldon)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Routledge (2000-11-16)
ISBN: 0415126754
EAN: 9780415126755
Dewy Decimal #: 616.890082
Paperback: 304 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: B419-C-1003
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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An excellent consideration of an important area
Rating  (5)
Date: 2001-05-05
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book cogently takes the reader into very challenging areas, making comprehensible some of the difficulties in working with violent women. The way women use their bodies and their own children in their acts of violence is fascinatingly outlined, but the author never loses her humanity in describing the troubled women she works with. I also found this book interesting because of the way that it looked not just at the women but also at the ways in which professionals responded to them. This factor adds a great deal to the complexity of working in this area, and Anna Motz is to be credited with her careful and thoughtful exploration of the dynamics involved. I would highly recommend this, not just to professionals and carers, but also to anyone who would like to better understand some of the seemingly incomprehensible aspects of the violent acts of women perpetrators.
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A first class review of this important and much ignored area
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-04-17
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
In this book, Anna Motz takes the reader through a range of forensic psychological issues and how they relate to women. Each of them is clearly explained and there are a number of excellent case-histories that make the conditions 'live' for the reader. The book is written from psychodynamic and criminological perspectives and is suitable for the interested lay reader as much as for the professional working in the field. The chapter on Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy was, for me, a real tour-de-force and is an example of how a fascinating psychiatric problem can be explained so that the lay-reader is able to understand much of the complexity and to empathise with the women with this problem. The book is a great addition to this all-too-brief literature and Motz is to be congratulated on how the complicated can be made accessible. It is certainly not comfortable reading in view of the subject area, but it is not one to be overlooked.
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