Theories And Deficit Analysis

It is theorized that men who are violent have deficits to their ego structure (Peters, Shackelford & Buss, 2002). Their violent outbursts are linked to issues with maternal figures in their lives which they express by controlling other women in an act of transference. Another theory suggests that their anger stems from other deficits such as the inability to control their own feelings or to have a functional relationship with their partner. In each of these aforementioned situations, the abuser is attempting to compensate for their deficit by gaining control of their relationship and their partner (Peters et al., 2002). Other theories eliminate the deficit assumptions and rely heavily upon the abusers explicit intentionality (Peters et al.,