Family Court Violence — When Psychiatry and Law Serve as the Batterer’s Club
3 min readSep 17, 2019
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 30 years ago, in my own mind body medicine psychotherapy practice, of a…