Treating Misogyny and Physical Abuse

In this powerful series of closely edited individual and couple sessions, see the transformative process of how love motivates remarkable and lasting change.

Witness how this lovable couple from India reunites after being divorced for two years. Their treatment includes healing from historical trauma, innovating new cultural practices of expressing care, and sharing chores as acts of love. They establish a safe and stable family environment with two teenage sons. 1 hour 54 minutes.

Segment 1

We begin by establishing the rewards for us as therapists to increase our own capacity to access all Seven Channels of Experience. In this way we find more colors in our palette to help paint the picture with couple members who are blocked in expressing their internal experience. The distress of the couple of how the breakdown of their 25-year marriage inspires and informs the path forward for healing. (1 hour and 54 minutes)

Segment 2

Dr. Mars in couple session work unpacks what is needed in the treatment, revealing the severe violence, betrayal and abandonment in the male couple member’s history as a boy. Dr. Mars explores how the male’s unresolved trauma brought him to unconsciously target his wife for revenge, which nearly destroyed their relationship. (1 hour and 14 minutes)

Segment 3

Dr. Mars demonstrates the co-construction of a series of healing portrayals to bring about much needed trauma resolution. This emphasizes ways clinician can resolve traumatic material into a healing result for the individual and the couple. The couple has remarried and is now living together harmoniously with their two sons. (1 hour and 48 minutes)

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