O TRANSTORNO DO ESTRESSE PÓS-TRAUMÁTICO SOB A LUZ DO PSICODIAGNÓSTICO DE RORSCHACH

Abstract

Nowadays, our society is included in a context of violence that makes people vulnerable. The individual who suffers any kind of violence will be more likely to develop an anxiety related to the fact and condemn himself for not knowing how to escape from this pain, a fact that often leads to the so-called Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This study intends to make a reading of PTSD through Rorschach's psychodiagnosis, anchored in the psychoanalytical and projective clinic as well as the current relevance of the study of this type of mental illness related to the work context. Three men who met the proposed inclusion criteria and who were enrolled for psychological evaluation at the UFPB Clinical School of Psychology participated in this study. Among the resources used during the psychodiagnostic assessment were specifically analyzed the initial clinical interview and Rorschach's psychodiagnosis. Thus, the main findings lead to a contradiction between the absence of clinical symptoms manifested in the history of these participants and the psychodynamics presented through the Rorschach. Even so, the resultos showed the relationship between PTSD and the psychodynamics presented by Rorschach; and a glimpse of potentiating effect of Rorschach‟s psychodiagnosis in relation to the personality-structuring elements of these participants, given that individual factors may cause one person to develop PTSD and another not.