Citation

Pocock M, Jackson D, Bradbury-Jones C. Health Care Women Int. 2019; ePub(ePub): 1-28.

Affiliation

Institute of Clinical Sciences , University of Birmingham, Edgbaston , Birmingham , UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07399332.2019.1621318

PMID

31204887

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a crime encompassing physical, psychological, financial, emotional, and sexual abuse by a current or former partner. The presence of love in abusive relationships tends to be marginalized in healthcare discourses. The authors' aim in this qualitative systematic literature review was to explore the interplay between IPV and romantic love and their impacts on women. The review provides a rare (but much needed) explanation and acknowledgement that love does sometimes exist in abusive relationships. These insights will assist healthcare workers in offering empathic care to women, based on understandings of the complex and highly unsettled nature of love in abusive relationships.

Language: en