Misplaced Pages

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This biography of a living person relies on a single source. You can help by adding reliable sources to this article. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Anna Motz" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Anna Motz (born 1964) is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with extensive clinical experience with women as perpetrators of violence and with the staff teams who work with them. Formerly president of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy (IAFP), she is the author of The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body.

The book deals with the causes of violence in women, what can be done to help them and their victims and explores why society denies the fact of female violence.

This book explores the nature and causes of female violence from the perspectives of psychodynamic theory and forensic psychology. The book explores recent high-profile cases of female violence, including the case of Victoria Climbié, the controversy related to the diagnosis of Münchausen syndrome by proxy, Dangerous and severe personality disorder in women, and the impact of pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites.

The book also explores other major topics, including the sexual and physical abuse of children by women, infanticide, fabricated and induced illness, and self-harm.

Works

• Motz, Anna (2009). Managing self-harm: psychological perspectives. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781583917053.
• Motz, Anna (2010). The psychology of female violence: crimes against the body (2., repr ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415403870.
• Motz, Anna (2014). Toxic couples: the psychology of domestic violence (1. publ ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415588898.
• Motz, Anna; Dennis, Maxine; Aiyegbusi, Anne (2020). Invisible trauma: women, difference and the criminal justice system. London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 9781138218666.
• Motz, Anna (2023). A love that kills: stories of forensic psychology and female violence. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 9781474624343.
• Motz, Anna (2024). If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence. Knopf. ISBN 9780593534151.

References

1. Anna Motz The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body (Routledge, 2001) ISBN 978-0-415-12675-5, 2nd edition January 2008 ISBN 978-0-415-40387-0

External links

• Crimes Against The Body - Anna Motz's website
• article quoting Anna Motz extensively on Baby P

This biography of an American psychologist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1964 births
• Living people
• American women psychologists
• 21st-century American psychologists
• 21st-century American women
• 20th-century American psychologists
• American psychologist stubs