Abstract
Objectives: The objectives of this research are to clarify the actions in the process of how victims of domestic violence leave their partner and the factors influencing this process, and to consider the appropriate support of this process by professionals. Method: Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with seven victims of domestic violence. All of them were Japanese women. Interview records were analyzed with Modified Grounded Theory Approach. Results and Consideration: Victims who gained "definitive sense of reaching the bottom" had been "recovering self as an existence to act". In this process, they had been "obtaining significant others linking them to services" and they were finally led to "secure and essential resources". "Recovering self as an existence to act", "obtaining significant others linking them to services" and "secure and essential resources" were mutually operating and created a "spiral of turning power". Victims felt a sense of "realizing the super-self', and they experienced a "revival of self' in the phase of actions. This process is "actions of turning power".
