Citation

Gibson J, Anwar Z. BMJ 2019; 367: l6612.

Affiliation

Luton, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.l6612

PMID

31776118

Abstract

We are concerned that Ades and colleagues’ paper on the long term health needs of women with a history of sexual trauma might give the impression that most women experience intimate partner violence—physical or sexual—as an isolated event. Intimate partner violence is often only one element (albeit the one most easily identified) of a prolonged experience of “intimate terrorism,” where …

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