Domestic Violence (Cobras vs Pitbulls)(2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So right now, perhaps millions of people around the world are involved in a relationship in which |
| 0:06.8 | there is violence occurring and they feel controlled and perhaps terrified of their partner. |
| 0:14.7 | And they are, they feel trapped, they feel like they can't get out. |
| 0:22.1 | They feel like they aren't going to be able to find any resources. |
| 0:26.9 | And they might even feel terrible about themselves as if they deserve their partner to control them and beat them and to punish them for bad behavior. |
| 0:38.1 | And it's a crisis and it's happening all the time. |
| 0:41.7 | It's happening in the United States, it's happening in your town. |
| 0:45.3 | And it seems like just a terrible thing that in 2016, that in our modern society with all |
| 0:52.1 | our bells and whistles and our iPhones and all this kind of |
| 0:54.6 | stuff and our internets, that we would still have these kinds of relationships where someone |
| 1:01.1 | is punishing someone else and dominating the other person and making that person feel like |
| 1:08.1 | they can't do anything on their own and can't live their own life the way that |
| 1:14.5 | they want to live it and can't even get out of their relationship. They can't even break up or |
| 1:19.5 | divorce out of fear of being killed. This is a problem, a crisis in our in our society. And so as a part of trying to raise our awareness |
| 1:31.3 | of this and maybe how to treat it, I thought I would ask my colleague, Dr. Michelle Finley, |
| 1:37.1 | come on the podcast to talk about it because it is her area of expertise. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:42.9 | Thank you. I've got to be here. |
| 1:44.8 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirkonda. I am chair of the |
| 1:50.6 | couple in family therapy program at Antioch University Seattle, and I'm also a licensed marriage |
| 1:56.4 | and family therapist. Michelle, Dr. Michelle, why don't you introduce yourself? Well, yeah, so I am one of the |
| 2:04.0 | core faculty in the couple and family therapy program at Antioch University. I've been in Seattle |
| 2:10.1 | since June of last year. And before that, I was living in Louisville, Kentucky, where I spent a number of years working with survivors of intimate partner violence, particularly in a – it's considered a dual program. |
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