Abstract

JESUS, Núbia Angélica de. The vicious circle of the sexual violence: from the offended to the offender. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.4, pp. 672-683. ISSN 1414-9893.

The present essay brought the issue of the sexual violence against children and adolescents, with emphasis on the author of the law breaking act. The objective was to comprehend the process of violence formation, taking into account the previous experience of the violence suffered by the author. It was used as reference a phenomenological-existential view. To illustrate, passages of psychological appointments with a male, thirty one years old, author of sexual violence, arrested for eleven years in closed regime were inserted. Twenty nine sessions were made as part of the project "Invertendo a Rota", linked to CEPAJ/UCG. It was concluded, with the appointments, that the image of the sexual abuse suffered in childhood influenced the way the person practiced the violence in adult age. After psychotherapy, it was noticed that the subject was able to enlarge the perceptions he had about himself and others, starting a resignification of his own life.

Keywords : Sexual violence author; Repetition; Prison; Psychotherapy.

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