[The traumatic memory]

Abstract

The traumatic memory, a consequence of the psychotrauma induced by incestuous violence, has inhabited Delphine throughout her childhood and a large part of her adult life. At the age of 40, following the revelations of her sister, she began psychotherapy and identified the traumatic events. She is finally able to understand and link a plural somatic symptomatology to a post-traumatic syndrome... Delphine shares here the story of this traumatic memory.

Keywords: childhood; enfance; incest; inceste; mémoire traumatique; reconstruction; sexual violence; symptoms; symptômes; testimony; trauma; traumatic memory; traumatisme; témoignage; violence sexuelle.