"Daddy Issues" and Diagnoses: Gendered Weaponization of Mental Health in Intimate Relationships.

IF 2.3 3区社会学 Q1 WOMENS STUDIES

Violence Against Women Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI:10.1177/10778012241277894

Chiara E Cooper, Paige L Sweet

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Abstract

Through life story interviews with victims of psychological abuse, we offer new empirical evidence for a tactic of coercive control: mental health weaponization. Shaped by structural vulnerabilities, mental health weaponization involves three key features: gendered accusations that victims are "crazy" and emotionally unstable; leveraging victims' past traumas against them, particularly that they form "bad" attachments to men; mobilizing victims' mental health diagnoses or symptoms against them to cast them as noncredible. This article enhances our understanding of controlling and abusive tactics in intimate relationships by showing how they are rooted in social inequalities at the intersection of gender and mental health status.

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"爸爸的问题 "与诊断：亲密关系中心理健康的性别武器化。

通过对心理虐待受害者的人生故事访谈，我们为一种强制控制策略提供了新的经验证据：心理健康武器化。心理健康武器化是在结构性弱点的影响下形成的，它有三个主要特征：从性别角度指责受害者 "疯了"，情绪不稳定；利用受害者过去的创伤来对付他们，特别是说他们对男性形成了 "不好的 "依恋；利用受害者的心理健康诊断或症状来对付他们，使他们变得不可信。这篇文章通过展示亲密关系中的控制和虐待策略是如何植根于性别和心理健康状况交织在一起的社会不平等中，加深了我们对这些策略的理解。

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Violence Against Women WOMENS STUDIES-

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

4.50%

发文量

142

期刊介绍： Violence against Women is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. The journal assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infantcide, female circumcision, and female sexual slavery.