“... sad post-coitum”

As therapists caring for bruises and even breaks in the structure of a patient’s bio-psycho-cultural evolution, we are sometimes called upon to receive or rescue former adolescents crippled by trauma. Before it is possible to envisage an archetypal elaboration, a physical or spiritual impact appears essential. Two clinical case-studies, one of a man and the other of a woman, attest to the fact.