"The love I had from you was made of glass and it is now broken”

An analysis of the psychological and self-image aspects of women victimized

Abstract

The following study has the purpose of identifying the diff erences among psychological characteristics, as well as the self-image of young and middle-age adults women who suff er physical violence practiced by their partners. To achieve this result, it was utilized a semi-structured interview and the test of the human fi gure by Campos (2000), to improve the under-standing about self-image issues. Data analysis was followed by lifting the instrument and the content analysis proposed by Erickson (1986). It can be observed that the experience of physical violence by these women is differently noticed in each group, leaving several marks that point the body as a signalman, bringing great moral suffering, which significantly undermines the woman’s psychosocial life.