The abusive personality violence and control in intimate relationships - Dutton, Donald G. 1943- (New York Guilford Press, 2007)
Early explanations -- Learning of abusiveness -- The psychology of the cycle of violence -- The structure of the abusive personality: the data -- The primitive origins of rage -- An anger born of fear: attachment rage -- The sociopsychoneurobiology of attachment -- The early antecedents studies -- Longitudinal development and female abusive personalities -- The treatment of assaultiveness.
Keywords: Abusive men -- Psychology; Object relations (Psychoanalysis); Attachment behavior; Intimacy (Psychology); Spousal abuse