Women On The Couch

Women On The Couch

Female Violence and Crimes Against the Body

In this talk, Anna Motz will explore the development of female violence and its typical expression in acts of aggression directed towards the woman’s own body and those of her children. She will explore the societal resistance to confronting the disturbing reality of maternal abuse in the light of commonly held, cherished beliefs about femininity in general and motherhood in particular. The hidden nature of female violence, so often enacted in the private, domestic realm, is evident in the clinical case material presented but Anna will also look at more recent developments in female violence, including women’s roles in terrorizt activities. She will present a model of the psychology of female violence described as ‘crimes against the body’.

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THE SPEAKER

Anna Motz

Anna Motz is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist working for the Family Assessment and Safeguarding Service, Oxford and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She supervises teams in Avon, Devon, Cornwall and Wales for the Anna Freud National center for Children and Families in MBT ASPD (Mentalization Based Treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder: men at high risk for violence), led by Dr Jessica Yakeley and Professor Anthony Bateman.

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