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Jewish-American psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker, who coined the term “battered woman syndrome,” came to Israel to participate in a conference initiated by the President’s Office. In an interview, she talks about antisemitism, trauma, and her disappointment with colleagues around the world....

In a seminal paper written in the late 1970s, psychologist Lenore Walker coined the phrase “battered women” and proposed that learned helplessness was the psychological rationale for why these women became targets....