; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: UNDERSTANDING THE BATTERER; 1. Affect Regulation and Narcissistic Equilibrium; 2. The Experience of Self and Other; 3. Identification with the Aggressor; PART 2: THE POLITICS OFTHE BATTERER-TREATMENT MOVEMENT; 4. Political Versus Clinical Determination of Abuse and Other Associations; 5. Our Unwitting Persecution of the Batterer and Other Facile Conveniences; PART 3: TREATMENT; 6. Countertransference; 7. Transference; 8. Joining Techniques; 9. Working Through: A Synthesis; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.;Traditional analyses of domestic battery often point to the batterer's need for power and control to explain patterns of violent behavior. Offering a nonjudgmental and compassionate view of the interior life of the batterer, Intimate Violence moves beyond this explanation and transforms our understanding of the psychic origins of abuse. The book is divided into three main sections. The first assesses psychoanalytic understanding of the inner mechanisms of the batterer's violent behavior toward close family members, pointing to disruptions in the abuser's "narcissistic equilibrium." The second.