Mobilisation des affects par le psychodrame de groupe dans le traitement des auteurs d'agressions sexuelles

Abstract

In this article, the author gives an account of a long practical experience of psychodrama group treatments for patients who committed juridicialised sexual agressions. He starts with a clinical finding checked by all researchers : the author of sexual violence presents a singualr difficulty in recognizing or discriminating the affects. This non acknowledgement is the product of a family climate impregnated with incest. It has to be undertsood as the result of a major defence against the affects'dimension for they are the vectors of genealogical transmission. Group psychodrama with patients who committed sexual violence constitutes a priviledged tool to allow a non-traumatic emergence of the affcets, in order to subsequently relate them to one's life story which would make it possible to «Genealogise» them. Such a technique can thus lead the subjects to a subjective appropriateness of their acts.