The Battered Woman Syndrome » (2nd Edition)

Lenore E. A. Walker, EdD, is a Professor at Nova Southeastern University Center for Psychological Studies and Coordinator of the Clinical Forensic Psychology Concentration for doctoral students training to be clinical psychologists. She is also in the Independent Practice of Forensic Psychology and is Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Institute with affiliate centers around the world. Dr. Walker specializes in work with victims of interpersonal violence particularly battered women & abused children. Her expert witness testimony opposed to the numerous challenges to Roe v Wade dealing with notification or consent laws helped established judicial by-pass procedures, especially needed when teens come from homes where there is domestic violence.

Walker earned her undergraduate degree in 1962 from CUNY Hunter College, her Masters of Science in 1967 from CUNY City College and her EdD in psychology from Rutgers, the State University in NJ. In 2004 she received a Post Doctoral Masters Degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology at NSU. She has worked on high publicity cases such as with battered women who kill their abusive partners in self defense and testifies on behalf of protective mothers who are being challenged for custody by abusive dads. She lectures and does training workshops all over the world about prevention, psychotherapy, legal cases, and public policy initiatives for abused women and children. Dr. Walker has authored numerous professional articles and 15 books including The Battered Woman (1979), The Battered Woman Syndrome (1984, second edition 2000, Springer Publishing Company), Terrifying Love: Why Battered Women Kill & How Society Responds (1989), Abused Women & Survivor Therapy (1994) and co-author with David Shapiro of Introduction to Forensic Psychology (2004) and with William Dorfman of A First Responders Guide to Abnormal Psychology (2007).

In this new edition of her groundbreaking book, Dr. Lenore Walker has provided a through update to her original findings in the field of domestic abuse. Each chapter has been expanded to include new research. The volume contains the latest on: the impact of exposure to violence on children, marital rape, child abuse, personality characteristics of different types of batterers, new psychotherapy models for batterers and their victims, and more. Walker also speaks out on her handling of the O.J. Simpson trial and how he does not fit the empirical data known for domestic violence. This volume should be required reading for all professionals in the field of domestic abuse.