Parcours De Demande De Soin D’une Adolescente Survivantes De Viol Au Togo

Abstract

Surviving the storm or inner chaos can seem like a miracle, especially if you know the cause(s) but don't understand the 'me'. Battling your inner enemies - your emotions, thoughts and feelings - can mean being a survivor, a miracle survivor in short, of the extreme violence of sexual assault. The aim of this article was to describe the experience of a rape survivor through an in-depth and unique analysis. To achieve this, we have used the clinical method. The analysis of the information gathered leads us to say that: in this journey, P's character seems to be frozen in the infernal cycle of repeating the scenarios of the rape event. She shows signs of psychic containment failure (high IA%). This particularly affects the kinesthetic (sensation of something walking on the pubis and sometimes on the lower abdomen) and tactile (sensation of burning and discomfort during sex, difficulty in maintaining close body-to-body contact at the beginning of our clinical encounters) envelopes. Despite this, she shows a good capacity for mentalisation, i.e. she tries to contain and manage conflicts as best she can.