Empower: A Daphne III project our mission, structure and results

Summary. This contribution presents the main results of Empower which is a research-intervention project in the real world that focuses on the problem of gender-based violence, particularly domestic violence and the mother-daughter relationship. The contribution develops the idea of Morenian sociatry where psychodrama can be considered an elective intervention to help those who are prisoners of victim-perpetrator relationships, since psychodrama proves valuable for troubleshooting identity. The University of Padua leads in every aspect of this project, and heads a partnership, composed of groups belonging to the FEPTO, that collaborate with anti-violence centers in Easter Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania) and Western Europe (Austria, Italy and Portugal)