Sexual abuse in childhood and adolescence, silenced corporeity:

report of experience in psychological duty

Abstract

Violence, considered a growing phenomenon that affects directly and indirectly in the different domains of social coexistence, has been a constant theme in the scenario of debates about social phenomena. In this context, sexual violence against children and adolescents is one of the themes that arise in the contemporary scenario. Recognizing the pluridimensionality of the experience is essential so that we can help these people. The objective of this study is to present a case study carried out in the psychological shift in a public school in the city of Manaus and to understand the dimension of the experience based on Merleau-Ponty's concepts. It is a study under the qualitative bias in which, for the analysis of the speeches, the adaptation to the assumptions of the phenomenological-psychological method of research in psychology was carried out. A teenager from the 2nd year of high school at a public school in Manaus participated, accompanied by the psychological shift. Several elements were brought up in her speech that characterize the dimension of pain and suffering since the first abuse suffered, still in childhood, and how the sexual abuse continued to be perpetrated in adolescence. It is concluded that the activity developed in the psychological duty allowed a re-dimensioning of the thought about himself in the sense that, it was from there that he decided to carry out the complaint that culminated in the removal of the current abuser, his brother.