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dlk

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3. Without a Name, Root Causes Aren't Researched & Truly Effective Treatment Protocols Aren't Developed

Reply to Phoenix61 (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 9, 2018, 11:29 AM

Feb 2018

Merely describing the behavior as battering limits significantly addressing the root cause and making inroads to eliminating it; it's a band-aid for a hemorrhage. This behavior meets the criteria for being included in the DSM as a distinct pathology

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Rob Porter and the Pathology With No Name [View all] dlk Feb 2018 OP

It's not a disease. It's a pattern of behavior Phoenix61 Feb 2018 #1

Without a Name, Root Causes Aren't Researched & Truly Effective Treatment Protocols Aren't Developed dlk Feb 2018 #3

APA may have chosen not to call it a disease. lagomorph777 Feb 2018 #5

Porter is definitely MontanaMama Feb 2018 #6

Only when the perpetrators don't control... Delmette2.0 Feb 2018 #2

It Could Be Accurately Described as the "I Will Control You to the Point of Death Syndrome" dlk Feb 2018 #4

It is generally concurrent with narcissism. alittlelark Feb 2018 #7

He hates women. Iggo Feb 2018 #8

It's a Specific/Special Category of Pathology dlk Feb 2018 #9

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Iggo Feb 2018 #10