Citation

Stewart DE, Robinson GE. Arch. Women Ment. Health 1998; 1(2): 83-89.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s007370050010

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Domestic violence is a major public health problem throughout the world. Domestic violence against women is perpetrated by intimate male partners on family members, and may give rise to both physical and mental health sequelae. Mental health consequences include depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, dissociative disorder, somatization, and self-harm behaviours. Psychiatrists may be called upon to assess and/or treat victims or perpetrators of domestic violence or to act as expert court witnesses. This paper reviews some of the mental health aspects of domestic violence..