Resilience and quality of life, in the therapeutic process, after a double trauma, body and psychic

Abstract

In this article, we present the therapeutic process of a young girl who suffered from a double trauma, physical and psychic. The precursor in the field of resilience Boris CYRULNIK (2002) explains to us that “learning to resist trauma by appealing to the confidence buried in each of us and which sometimes takes time to express itself. It is a refusal of resignation to the fatality of misfortune. This is the art of navigating through torrents”. The model of resilience can help to understand, how some individuals manage in front of traumatic contexts that destroy other people. The process of resilience can be facilitated or hindered, depending on the internal and external resources of the subject. Despite her painful injuries, the patient was able to escape unscathed.