UNA APROXIMACIÓN FENOMENOLÓGICA A LA EXPERIENCIA DE RECAÍDA EN EL CONSUMO DE ALCOHOL EN PERSONAS CON SÍNTOMAS DISOCIATIVOS Y EXPERIENCIAS TRAUMÁTICAS

This research aims to investigate the relapse in alcohol consumption in people who suffered traumatic experiences and dissociative symptoms. Six interviews were conducted based on the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, in which the experience of relapse due to alcohol consumption was investigated. The interview analysis method was conducted according to Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology proposal. The results of this study show a temporary structure in the relapse experience. In the initial phase the person has memories associated with the traumatic experience which leads him or her to start drinking alcohol to relieve the suffering experienced. Subsequently, and while consumption occurs, he or she feels fleeting moments of satisfaction, which are replaced by the feeling of loss of control and a negative assessment of himself or herself. The end of the relapse comes when the person resorts to his or her environment to explain what happened. This study shows the relevance of temporality in the experience of relapse in alcohol consumption. Furthermore, it is proposed that the phenomenon of chemical dissociation attributed to alcohol and access to emotional burden is an alternating and temporality-dependent process.