Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Narrative : theoretical background
  • Domestic violence and the role of general practice : a narrative-analytic approach
  • Signs of abuse : "classic" disclosures and narrative trajectories
  • Setting the scene of abuse : metaphors and spatiotemporal mapping
  • Mythologizing time, mythologizing violence : backgrounds and explanations of domestic abuse
  • Agents of their own victimization : the women's role in the GPS' narratives
  • Evaluating abuse : storied knowledge and salient facts
  • Conclusion.