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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Domestic violence is hard enough to endure in and of itself. Then there’s the “getting out” part that is in some cases harder. The saddest, though, is the price the victim sometimes pays for her* peace, safety and freedom.
For some survivors this is her sanity, for others it may be her contact with her children. And then, there are those whose price is leaving their lives to get their life back.
For full article, visit: Crazy Making: 3 Signs Your Mental Health Status Is “On the Line” in Your Divorce
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Institutionalizing battered women in psychiatric hospitals is as old as prostitution. It’s an effective way to silence and discredit them.
In My Own Practice
I remember a case over 20 years ago in my own practice of a patient referred by a social worker for a stress-related neuromuscular disorder. The referring social worker informed me that the young man’s birth mother was a schizophrenic who had been institutionalized when he was around five years old.
For full article, visit: Family Court Violence – When Psychiatry and Law Serve as the Batterer’s Club
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
So many of our readers are struggling with the same issue: “Why does he/she tell me, I’m crazy?”
To help you sort through all of the crazy making inherent in living in and getting out of an abusive relationship, we have compiled this collection of insights and information.
If you are headed toward divorce court, you won’t want to take another step until you have read Crazy Making Legal-Psychiatric Abuse: Signs and Prevention.
To learn more about this new release, visit: http://www.preventabusiverelationships.com/crazy_making.php
Our wish for you is that each and everyone of you hold your sanity and walk with well-being in route to the closure you seek for yourself.
Kindest Regards,
Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Partners in Prevention
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