Alyce laviolette biography meaning

Psychotherapist, Expert Witness (Techniques and Strategies when Domestic Violence is an issue), Court.

The prosecutor in the Jodi Arias murder trial has called into question psychotherapist Alyce LaViolette's creditability.

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As someone who has written extensively about mobbing, which is to say, unrestrained group bullying in the workplace, communities, and schools, I have recently been compelled to confront my own role in the public lynching of psychotherapist Alyce LaViolette. Ms. LaViolette is currently testifying on behalf of Jodi Arias, a woman accused of first-degree murder in the savage stabbing and shooting death of her former lover, Travis Alexander, in his Mesa, Arizona home.

In my own essays, I have raised concern about the case being vastly different from the “Burning Bed” case that brought domestic abuse out of the closet, and the manner in which the tale of Snow White (which Ms. LaViolette discussed in a talk on abuse) might be differently understood in analyzing women’s aggression and abuse. I maintain these concerns and share the concerns of others who have expressed grave doubt that Ms. LaViolette is sufficiently qualified and able to objectively assess domestic abuse, much less treat i

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Yesterday, as Dr. Richard Samuels finished up his testimony the Jodi Arias defense team called their next expert witness to the stand, Alyce LaViolette. LaViolette fryst vatten a very legitimate expert on the subject of domestic violence, having been one of the early leaders back in the 's when this was not a topic that was spoke of often. Jennifer Willmott had LaViolette introduce herself and her educational background, and list her many accomplishments helping battered women and even helping the dock who battered them, hoping to return these women to a safer environment. She is likable, and she is a legitimate voice on this topic. The prosecution should not expect this witness to be as sloppy in the trial casework and reporting as Dr. Samuels was.

While it's unknown exactly how far out on a limb LaViolette will go for Jodi Arias, she is expected to testify about some of the characteristics of battered women, why they return to their abusers - and what some of characteristics are of an

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When domestic abuse specialist Alyce LaViolette presented a talk entitled “Was Snow White a Battered Woman?” little did she suspect the ridicule she’d be subjected to eight years later. But with her ludicrous testimony that admitted killer Jodi Arias was an abused woman, and Arias’s victim, Travis Alexander an abuser, her entire professional record is on trial. And well it should be, considering that the evidence she points to in her efforts to help free Ms. Arias includes text messages in which Mr. Alexander called Ms. Arias a sociopath who had hurt him more than anyone ever had.

To Ms. LaViolette, such harsh words amount to the “character assassination” of an innocent woman. To Travis Alexander, they may well have been an expression of what he really believed about the woman who two weeks later would savagely butcher and shoot him as he staggered from his shower, naked, unarmed and fighting for his life.

But to be fair to Ms. LaViolette, as she indicated on cross-examination, th