Domestic Violence:
Role Play of a Therapy Session

In this DVD, Dr. Ross interviews a woman with a history of domestic violence. He plays the role of a worker at a battered women's shelter and Melissa Engle, Executive Clinical Director of the Ross Institute, role plays the woman. This is her eighth visit to the shelter.

The interview illustrates the two core principles of the Trauma Model: the problem of attachment to the perpetrator and the locus of control shift. Dr. Ross explains to the woman why she needs to learn how to tolerate and integrate her ambivalent attachment in order to make healthy decisions about her marriage.

Approximate running time: 40 minutes