SEXUAL ABUSE IN WOMEN FROM A BRIEF PSYCHOTHERAPY PERSPECTIVE

Autore:

Ricardo De la Cruz Gil - Stefano Bartoli

Anno:

2025

Editore:

Collana:

Sexual abuse in women from a brief psychotherapy perspective 

 

Abstract

Sexual abuse is one of the forms of violence that most affect women worldwide. There are multiple consequences left in the victims, ranging from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, panic attacks, eating disorders, sexual problems, among others. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the sexual abuse suffered by women from the perspective of brief strategic psychotherapy, based on a systemic, cybernetic, and constructivist epistemology. A qualitative methodology of theoretical analysis will be employed. It is found that the experience of sexual abuse, as an entropic phenomenon, destroys and disorganizes the cognitive and relational structures of the victim. Brief psychotherapy enables the entry of negative entropy, allowing the relational, cognitive, and identity reconstruction of the victim, transforming her from a victim into a survivor. It is concluded that brief psychotherapy can allow the resignification of the traumatic event, the deconstruction of the cognitive and relational patterns that sustain the clinical symptoms as a consequence of the abuse experience, and enable the transformation, empowerment, development, and growth of the client.

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