%0 Journal Article
%T Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Intimate Partner Violence
%A Aliya R. Webermann
%A Christopher M. Murphy
%J Violence Against Women
%@ 1552-8448
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077801218766628
%X The present study assesses childhood abuse/neglect as a predictor of dissociative intimate partner violence (IPV) among 118 partner-abusive men. One third (36%) endorsed dissociative IPV, most commonly losing control (18%), surroundings seeming unreal (16%), feeling someone other than oneself is aggressing (16%), and seeing oneself from a distance aggressing (10%). Childhood physical abuse/neglect predicted IPV-specific derealization/depersonalization, aggressive self-states, and flashbacks to past violence. Childhood emotional abuse/neglect predicted derealization/depersonalization, blackouts, and flashbacks. Childhood sexual abuse uniquely predicted amnesia. Other potential traumas did not predict dissociative IPV, suggesting dissociative IPV is influenced by trauma-based emotion dysregulation wherein childhood abuse/neglect survivors disconnect from their abusive behavior
%K intimate partner violence
%K dissociation
%K trauma
%K childhood abuse and neglect
%K domestic violence
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077801218766628