Yes, Ellen Pence, creator of Duluth herself, recanted her study and the model in 1999:
“By determining that the need or desire for power was the motivating force behind battering, we created a conceptual framework that, in fact, did not fit the lived experience of many of the men and women we were working with. Like those we were criticising, we reduced our analysis to a psychological universal truism. The DAIP* staff – like the therapist insisting it was an anger control problem, or the judge wanting to see it as an alcohol problem, or the defence attorney arguing that it was a defective wife problem – remained undaunted by the differences in our theory and the actual experiences of those we were working with. We all engaged in ideological practices and claimed them to be neutral observations.*Domestic Abuse Intervention Programme
I found that many of the men I interviewed did not seem to articulate a desire for power over a partner. Although I relentlessly took every opportunity to point out to the men in groups that they were so motivated and merely in denial, the fact that few men ever articulated such a desire went unnoticed by me and many of my co-workers. Eventually we realised that we were finding what we had predetermined to find.”
Ellen Pence,Duluth Creator, in Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons From Duluth and Beyond, p. 1999
And yet every dv org uses it as truth, and uses Patriarchal Theory as the root of IPV.