Abstract

NICOLETTA, Bruna Sterza; MELLO, Marcelo Feijó  and  COELHO, Myrna. Phenomenological Understandings About Sexual Trauma Re-Exposure Based on Women's Reports. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.2, pp.523-544.  Epub May 03, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.68634.

This paper was developed based upon a thematic project “Posttraumatic stress disorder and neuroprogression: trauma and stress increasing load allostatic and accelerating the aging process", conducted with women who suffered sexual assault and developed post-traumatic stress disorder in the state of São Paulo. This study has reports about sexual violence in childhood and adolescence and its re-exposures in adulthood and seeks to bring up understandings about this experience in order to open possibilities for a more appropriate intervention. Reflective interviews were made with four collaborators that previously answered positively to a questionnaire of abuse and neglect during childhood and adolescence in the screening of the Thematic Project. With the phenomenological analysis their speech was split into eight categories (Affections, Guilt, Familiar world, Unsaid, Racism, Health professionals, Today and Sexual violence re-exposure). It has been concluded that sexual violence concerns to a political responsibility, once the collaborators blamed themselves for they believe that their vulnerability was their fault instead of a tradition of gender violence.

Keywords : violence against women; sexual trauma; speech analysis..

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