Abstract

ARISTIZABAL, Edith et al. Psychic symptoms and trauma in victims and victimizers of the armed conict in the colombian caribbean. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.1, pp.123-152. ISSN 0123-417X.

On the basis of the results obtained from several studies, the effects of the violent experiences and violent acts exerted on the others in the spread of the armed conict has been proved, affecting subjects' mental health. We study in this paper this type of link between violent actions or experiences and the psychological trauma and symptoms caused in 36 subjects (20 victims and 16 victimizers), who were listened in psychological counseling through Alta Consejería para la Reintegración, Defensorías del Pueblo del Atlántico and MAPP-OEA programmes, in the framework of the 121549326151 investigation project funded by Colciencias. 2 to 7 in-depth interviews were done with each one depending on their interest in going on with the process. Multi-case comparative design and well-founded theory were used linked through an Analysis Matrix called ARIADGE (Immediate Responses Analysis: Acts, Displacement, War and Exceptions). Discursive results were organized in emerging categories and subcategories representing gradual production of knowledge in relation to the way these subjects reported traumatic situations and the effects caused in their psyche because of the armed conict spread in regions of Magdalena, Atlántico, Bolívar and César.

Keywords : psychological trauma; victims; victimizers; symptoms; armed conict.

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