Videomusic and Psychic Trauma (VIMUTRAU)

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.

Patients will attend a 8 min videomusic session and questionnaires will be performed before and after this session.

Consciousness fluidity will be assessed before and after videomusic listening from the scores obtained at a questionnaire Evaluating Qualitatively the Fluidity of Consciousness (EQFC). Minimum and maximum values are 1 for "Never" and 6 for "Always". For some items, 1 indicates a better outcome and for some it is the contrary.

Experiential phenomenological interview will be analyzed according to qualitative analyze criteria (occurrence frequencies)

Patient anxiety level will be analyzed before and after videomusic listening thanks to State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) scale and scores obtained will be correlated with EQFC scores. For each item scores go from 1 to 4. For some of them 1 means "Not at all" and 4 "A lot" and for others it is the contrary. A global score superior to 65 indicates a high level of anxiety and a global score inferior or equal to 35 a very low level of anxiety.

Principal component analysis will be performed to find potential correlations between population initial characteristics and improvement of consciousness fluidity after videomusic listening

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