Videomusic and Psychic Trauma

Phenomenological Crossing of the Psychic Trauma and Its Resolution. Imagination at the Heart of the Treatment: Video-music as a Metaphor for Psychological Trauma and Its Resolution.

This project is interested in the flow of consciousness and its modalizations during psychological trauma (post-traumatic stress disorder) and its resolution. It is based on the premise that in PTSD, consciousness becomes more rigid, less fluid, due to the memory always imposing itself on the consciousness. The resolution of the trauma and the subsequent reduction of anxiety might improve the fluidity of consciousness and thus lead to an overall improvement in the psychological state of PTSD patients. In cases of PTSD, music has been shown to reduce anxiety from the very first session and has a very positive effect on all PTSD symptoms.

In this project the following elements will be evaluated : on one hand, the changes in consciousness and its fluidity and, on the other hand, the evolution of anxiety following the listening of a new kind of work, videomusic (which associates a video scenario with music) exemplifying (metaphorizing) the trauma and its resolution.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female at least 18 years of age
• Patients diagnosed with Simple Post Traumatic Stress according to DSM 5 criteria
• Patient able to express consent prior to participation in the study
• Patient affiliated to or beneficiary of a social security regimen

Exclusion Criteria:

• Other serious psychiatric pathologies
• Serious chronic pathologies, especially neurological ones
• Epilepsy
• Blindness or deafness
• Psychiatric decompensation
• Pregnant Women
• Patient under judicial protection (guardianship, curatorship...) or justice safeguard
• Any other reason that, in the opinion of the investigator, could interfere with study objective evaluation