Women, Violence, and Jung’s Archetypes

P-151: Violence Against Women and Children:Causes, Challenges and Prevention

Background: Violence against women is a problem of public health on a global scale. Two decades of international research organizations including the World Health Organization show the problem of violence against women is more serious and more common than was previously considered. These studies aimed to investigate, the most common causes of violence against women and prevention strategy from ...

Women and violence

Women, psychosis and violence.

Psychosis confers a disproportionate risk of violence on women compared with men, but such women barely affect national crime statistics anywhere. Much research in the field does not include women at all. In our literature review, we found that information about women, psychosis and violence generally had to be extracted from studies including women but focussing on men; not uncommonly analyses...

Social Themes of Domestic Violence Against Women

Introduction: Domestic violence against women is an ancient and common problem in any society. Knowing the leading social themes may help us to prevent and control domestic violence against women. The current study aims to investigate the role of access or lack of access to the resources in domestic violence against women. Methods: The thematic analysis applied as the research method. Thirty-on...

Commentary: women, violence, and insanity.

There is less research about homicidal women than about their male counterparts. Women are often considered the gentler sex, and their risk of perpetrating violent acts is underestimated. In attempts to understand violence by women with mental illness, female homicide offenders found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) are an important subpopulation. Understanding common factors in this sub...