As part of my MSc Psychology degree, I am completing a research project on perceptions of acquaintance rape. If you are able and willing to participate then please click the link – all information regarding the study can be found there too.
https://uclan.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_01bvf6KTlnr3ZQ2
From my experience on the subject, as a Forensic Psychopathologist, it is, as a standard rule, that THE VICTIMS narrate and live the situation with great helplessness and after a crisis of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, which adds to the impact of sexual abuse, MAXIMUM if the perpetrator in addition to acquaintance is familiar ... "How could someone who should protect me do this to me", to this are added feelings of guilt and mechanisms of "victimization", since they may even feel guilty; For all these reasons, the traumatic event can be "repressed" and sometimes "forgotten", as a defense mechanism, having to resort, with the permission of the Judicial Authority, to regressive hypnosis. It is a similar phenomenon, in part, how tragedies and catastrophes are perceived: if they are of "natural orogeny" they are accepted and overcome better than if they are human-made, as in cases of terrorism.
For his part, the VICTIMARY will always begin by DENYING EVERYTHING, saying that they are the fantasies of a hysterical or repressed ... if the fact is substantiated and evidenced, he will try by all means to make believe that THE VICTIM HAS BEEN HIM !!, that she she has seduced him - like a "Lolita" - or tricked him with "woman's bad arts", thus favoring the victimization process of the victim who is presented as the culprit; in such a framework I have witnessed and lived as a forensic scary and terrible situations!
I tried to enrol in the survey but received a system message that it was closed.
It may be worth putting a notice on this post informing would-be participants that the survey is no longer active :)
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