The most accurate method to measure the extent of family violence is through use of surveys involving interviews. The survey should identify and cover all three variants of family violence. The telephone is a great tool for surveys but personal interviews can capitalize on the viewing of body mechanics during the interview. In the psychiatric arena they use hypnosis to get to the root of patient’s problems. The use of hypnosis in the interviews could eliminate the bias of answers being socially correct. It seems with every method to extract information on family violence there are some shortcomings. I believe that the use of multiple mea