Battered woman syndrome: a conceptual analysis of its status vis-à-vis DSM IV mental disorders
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1Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Medicine and Law
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Literature on battered woman syndrome is examined with a view to validating the use of the word 'syndrome'. It is concluded that there is now sufficient information to justify its serious consideration as a form of post-traumatic stress disorder, as that diagnosis is defined in DSM IV: and that this has significance for the legal defence of battered women who react aggressively towards their abusers.