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Difficult Men - Arabella Melville

Description: ISBN 0749322446 / Genre: Science / Nature

Newest Review: ... to improve the relationship." The background to this book is that Melville herself, a journalist specialising in writing ... more

... about emotional/psychological issues, has personal experience of living with a violent man. This book grew out of an honest first hand account she wrote for Cosmopolitan about her experience and how Colin changed. The article and her stance on the issue has been opposed by people such as the head of the Women's Refuge movement of the time, and I would tend to agree with them that some of the techniques she says her therapist used with her are way over the line of what is considered helpful and acceptable, however...more

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Difficult Men - Arabella Melville: A Different Perspective..... (581 words)
by lily7star - written on 17/09/00 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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Subtitled "Strategies for Women who choose not to Leave", Arabella Melville takes a very unusual approach to serious marital problems in that she does not automatically take the "Get Out!" stance, even in cases of regular violence and abuse. Having read many books on relationships, and having a particular interest in domestic violence and abuse, I can quite confidently say that this book provides a rare viewpoint, and may be worth a read for that reason alone. This is not at all an academic work, but more the opportunity for women's stories to be told, and some ways of coping and getting the best out of a diffficult relationship to be ...

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