Elizabeth Engel nee Benjamin-Rasmussen with her daughter Dorel Hall nee Engel in Elizabeth's home; Silver Springs, Maryland Portraits Family

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Violence against the adolescents of Kolkata: A study in relation to the socio-economic background and mental health

This study attempts to understand the nature of violence suffered by the adolescents of Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) and to identify its relation with their socio-economic background and mental health variables such as anxiety, adjustment, and self-concept. It is a cross-sectional study covering a total of 370 adolescents (182 boys and 188 girls) from six higher secondary schools in Kolkata. The data was gathered by way of a semi-structured questionnaire and three standard psychological tests. Findings revealed that 52.4%, 25.1%, and 12.7% adolescents suffered psychological, physical, and sexual violence in the last year. Older adolescents (aged 17–18 years) suffered more psychological violence than the younger ones (15–16 years) (p < 0.05). Sixty nine (18.6%) adolescent students stood witness to violence between adult members in the family. More than three-fifth (61.9%) adolescents experienced at least one type of violence, while one-third (32.7%) experienced physical or sexual violence or both. Whatever its nature is, violence leaves a scar on the mental health of the victims. Those who have been through regular psychological violence reported high anxiety, emotional adjustment problem, and low self-concept. Sexual abuse left a damaging effect on self-concept (p < 0.05), while psychological violence or the witnessing of violence prompted high anxiety scores (p < 0.05), poor emotional adjustment (p < 0.05), and low self-concept (p < 0.05). This study stresses the need to provide individual counselling services to the maltreated adolescents of Kolkata so that their psychological traumas can heal and that they can move on in life with new hopes and dreams.

Reproduction of family tree, possibly the Gottschalk Stammbaum from the home of Henriette Gottschalk nee Rothschild Genealogy

Others remember the Gottschalk Stammbaum from the home of Henriette Gottschalk nee Rothschild as having only one tree

Therese Godshaw's nee Molling 70th birthday party at the Krakauer home; Boston Portraits Family

Left to right behind table: John Krakauer, Donald, Michael and Robert Godshaw (Children of Hal and Anne), Grandma Therese Godshaw nee Molling, Julius Pick (Grandfather of Robert, Michael and Donald). In front of table: Wendy and Gerry Godshaw (children of Kurt and Edith.

Sculptures by Ellen Bernkopf nee Catzenstein in the home of her daughter Yael Arnold; Waldstetten.

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Sculpture by Ellen Bernkopf nee Catzenstein in the home of her daughter Yael Arnold; Waldstetten Artworks

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Franz Matthiesen outdoors with his second wife Katherina Früh outside of Franz's Carton Hill home; London.

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Romantic terrorism? Survivor narratives of psychological and emotional tactics of domestic violence

This paper draws on the theoretical arguments outlined in Hayes (2014) to frame critical analyses of two real life domestic violence narratives. The authors are both academic criminologists and victims/survivors of domestic violence, but within differing contexts – one a conventional heterosexual relationship, the other a female same-sex relationship. Their experiences are intertwined in an extensive collaborative auto-ethnographic analysis that spans seven years of working and socialising together, in which each provided a sounding board and support for the other. The analysis therefore documents two personal journeys. The academic and theoretical are intertwined with the personal and subjective to elicit an evocative and yet empirically validated study. The theoretical underpinnings of romantic love distortion, misogyny and sexism are used to frame these experiences of domestic violence and the differing sexualities of the authors provide a rich context for exploring the ways in which domestic violence victimisation experiences are impacted by gender, sexuality, and heteronormative discourses of love, sex and relationships.

Gathering in the home of Dr. Alfred Stern and his wife Lotte nee Wallerstein; Paula Wallerstein nee Molling; Rheydt, Germany. Portraits Groups

Dr. Alfred Stern probably standing far left; Paula Wallerstein nee Molling seated in center

Albert and Elsa Einstein at the Shanghai home of Chinese painter and calligrapher Wang Yiting; with Shanghai University President Yu Youren, former Beijing University professor Zhang Junmai, the Einstein's Japanese hosts Mr. and Mrs. Inagaki, and Einstein's colleague Mr. Pfister and his wife (and daughter?) Portraits Groups

Dedication: Freundlichste Erinnerung an Herrn Prof. Einstein und seine Frau Gemahlin. I-Jing Wang, Shanghai, China

The Hindenburg Zeppelin flying over the home of Chancellor Hindenburg; Hannover.

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Alice Burlin nee Molling, Therese Gottschalk nee Molling, and Line Stern nee Wallerstein at Alice Burlins's home; Linton near Cambridge, England.

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Summer home of Bianca and Julius Rosenbaum; Glinicke, Berlin Portraits Men

Verso: handwritten correspondence

Fanny and Hugo Eichenwald with two of their three children, Fritz and Hanne outside of their home; Rheine Portraits; Family

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Elisabet Eliasberg writing in her first American home after fleeing Hitler's Austria; 73 Payson Avenue, New York City Portraits Women

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