Keywords
psychological needs of violent men
masculine violence
family violence
systemic approach
marital relationship
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Abstract
With the aim to contribute to the comprehension of men’s violent behavior towards their female partners this qualitative research – intervention with twelve heterosexual couples identify the needs, expectations and dreams of men and their relationship with the emergence and maintenance of verbal and physical masculine maltreatment. The needs, expectations and dreams of these men can be grouped in three types: the first one includes emotional and relational aspects; the second one includes aspects of the traditional patriarchal culture and the third group shows men’s desires for egalitarian relationships. This investigation found that not only men’s desire to dominate, control and have power contribute to men’s violent acts but also their lack of affection and emotional attachment to others.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.