Erin Pizzey

Prone to violence: chapter two

This is Chapter Two of Erin Pizzey’s must-read suppressed blockbuster, “Prone to Violence.” In Chapter 2, we explore the phenomenon Erin calls addiction to violent relationships. Some people grow up with so much violence in their family home that violence becomes inextricably linked with their identity and their sense of security. You need to get this into the hands of anyone from an abusive family background.

Prone to Violence, Introduction and Preface

Erin Pizzey founded the first nationally and internationally recognized refuge for battered wives in England in 1971. She has two children and two grandchildren from her first marriage. She has written: Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear, Infernal Child and The Slut’s Cookbook. Here she shares with the AVfM audience serial excerpts from her seminal work on domestic abuse, “Prone to Violence”.