Violence and women's mental health: the pain unequalled: a two-part special issue.

摘要

LOVED ONES HEARING THE CRIES OF SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS, advocates answering crisis lines in late hours of the night, clinicians listening to the heart-wrenching stories of survivors and their children, all have been witness to the mental health effects that violence and abuse have on women. These firsthand stories have been borne out in psychological, epidemiological, sociological, and medical literatures that reveal the more intangible effects of intimate partner violence: elevated levels of depression and suicidality, anxiety, PTSD, and other adverse mental health outcomes. Whether considered clinically or empirically, it is clear that intimate forms of victimization are detrimental to the mental health of women.