Group interventions and their effect on war combatants’ psychic trauma resulting from violence

Abstract

This article highlights the importance of group psychoanalytic interventions in the treatment of psychic trauma resulting from violence in Colombia. The armed conflict in Colombia has generated serious consequences in the mental health of Colombian society, especially for the victims, but it has also has left an imprint on war combatants (military and guerrillas). Thinking about post-conflict and reconciliation, necessarily implies analyzing the effects that the armed conflict has produced on the mental health of the guerrillas who enter civility and the most relevant psychotherapeutic modalities for their assistance. Group psychotherapeutic interventions have proven to be effective because of the interplay that is generated within the groups, the polyphony of voices charged with subjectivity that are found there and the therapeutic factors that constitute them.

Keywords

• excombatientes
• dinámica de grupo
• trauma psíquico
• violencia
• conflicto armado.