Lenore E. Walker

Lenore Edna Walker is an American psychologist who founded the Domestic Violence Institute, documented the Cycle of abuse and wrote The Battered Woman, for which she won the Distinguished Media Award in 1979. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1987.

Lenore Edna Walker was born in New York, New York on October 3, 1942. She lived and worked in Denver, Colorado, where she was a licensed psychologist, was a leader in the field of domestic violence, and was president and chief executive officer of Walker & Associates. To research family violence, Walker founded the Domestic Violence Institute.

She has testified as an expert witness in trials involving domestic abuse and had developed domestic violence training programs and drafted legislative reform. Walker interviewed 1,500 women who had been subject to domestic violence and found that there was a similar pattern of abuse, called the "cycle of abuse".She wrote the book The Battered Woman for which she won the Distinguished Media Award the same year.

• The Battered Woman, 1979
• Getting it All Women in the Eighties, Women and Mental Health
• The Battered Woman Syndrome