ABSTRACT
Systemic violence was one of the major subjects, especially violence committed by men against women in heterosexual relationships and the consequences thereof. The chapter provides a theoretic framework in which people were able to understand the violence between men and women and which offers handles for therapeutic treatment with these couples. Sometimes, people come into our practice for therapy precisely because they have issues with violence within their relationship and they are aware that people are specialized in handling this. In those cases, they willingly go ahead with a programme to end the violence because that is what they came for in the first place. Therapy is only possible if the perpetrator of violence is willing to take responsibility for his behaviour. If this does not work, the therapist has to try other ways, such as the path of social control, where the safety of the wife and any children is paramount.
