چكيده لاتين
This qualitative research was conducted to analyze mentalization of women with traumatic experiences of sexual assault. Braun and Clarkeʹs 6-phase thematic analysis method was used to conduct this research. The statistical population of this research consists of women who experienced sexual abuse in Isfahan province. The sampling of the research was done by snowball method and continued until saturation (8). the data was collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed after coding. As a result of the analysis of the interviews, two main themes were obtained, which included: 1) the first attack on mentalization and 2) forever burden. In the first theme, the narrative of sexual assault, the personʹs past and present perspective, and the personʹs experience after the trauma were discussed. In the second theme, the lasting effects of the experience of sexual abuse in the participants ʹ dimensions of mentalizing ability(inner-outer, self-other, cognitive-affective, automatic-controlled) were investigated. The findings of the research showed that most of the women in this study experienced the aggravation of the imbalance in the 4 dimensions of mentalization after experiencing sexual abuse. The participants of this research have often shown this imbalance in an intensified and more pervasive form of the same type of pre-assault orientations in their lives. According to these results, women who have experienced sexual abuse, in the performance of mentalization after the trauma, have been influenced by non-mentalizing modes. The most experienced mode for these women has been psychic equivalence mode, whose outward appearance has been in the form of pervasive trauma associations that have caused serious disruption in life. Pretend mode has often been shown in the delayed perception of trauma and teleological mode in unbalanced orientations against oneself and other in stressful situations. Also, the findings of this research show that the participants, in addition to being out of the mentalizing stance and being unable to hypothesize efficiently, without certainty and without judgment, have widely experienced epistemic mistrust and lack of security. The failure to form sincere and trusting relationships, as well as to process the traumatic incident of sexual assault and other anxiety-inducing incidents, has been shown in the lives of these people.
