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Too often emotional abuse goes unreported for fear of recourse and for misconceptions that the individual believes they may deserve what is being done to them emotionally.
Physical abuse is when someone physically causes another person harm i.e. punching, kicking, throwing objects at them or using objects to cause injury i.e. cigarettes, knives, etc. His or her abuser often intimidates the abused individual. There are times when emotional abuse may be used in conjunction with physical abuse in order to help the abuser have a greater sense of power over the victim. This form of abuse is just as damaging if not more damaging in ways than its cohort emotional abuse. Both man and women have lost their lives through enduring physical abuse and not being able to live to tell the story. While doing research it is easy to see that there is a plethora of research regarding child abuse, however there is limited research on physical abuse regarding both men and women.
Physical abuse often goes unreported by both men and women because of embarrassment and often for fear that,...
Some studies, report that men experience more physical abuse than do women. Several studies have found that physical or sexual abuse was predictive of alcohol abuse for women, but not for men. However, researchers indicate a number of methodological problems inherent in most investigations of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and substance use disorders (e.g., insufficient assessment of alcohol problems, homogeneous samples, and inadequate statistical power). (Rice et al. 114) it is abundantly obvious that both forms of abuse are debilitating and crippling in there own ways. It is hard to rank one worse than the other they are both negatively affect the individual.
Works Cited
Rice, Christopher, et al. "Self-Reports of Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse in an Alcoholism Treatment Sample." Journal of Studies on Alcohol 62.1 (2001): 114.
Smullens, Sarakay. "The 5 Cycles of Emotional Abuse: Investigating a Malignant Victimization." Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association 5.5 (2002): 16+.
Works Cited
Rice, Christopher, et al. "Self-Reports of Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse in an Alcoholism Treatment Sample." Journal of Studies on Alcohol 62.1 (2001): 114.
Smullens, Sarakay. "The 5 Cycles of Emotional Abuse: Investigating a Malignant Victimization." Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association 5.5 (2002): 16+.
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