Domestic Violence: 50 Years Ago, Doctors Called It '''Therapy''' | Time
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...we’ve made a lot of progress since 50 years ago when doctors thought “wife beating” was therapeutic. An article in the issue of TIME dated 50 years ago today — Sept. 25, 1964 — highlights a mind-boggling study that concludes couples stay in abusive relationships because their fighting can “balance out each other’s mental quirks.”
Yep, seriously. “Mental quirks.”
What’s most shocking is that doctors believed that a man beating his wife under these circumstances was actually a good thing. They called it “violent, temporary therapy”:
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I rest my case, with facts...not emotions/feelings/imprecise recollections.
