Psychological trauma and creativity among amputee athletes : a case study of an athlete “Sprinting Champion without legs”

Abstract EN

The present research aims to explore the manifestation of the traumatic experience along with the creativity among amputee athletes.

The research is paramount as it belongs to the field of positive psychology, which represents a new way to study human abilities and virtues.

According to the exploratory research, it is obvious that the traumatic experience may appear by means of color shock in Rorschach test and through the scarcity of working-off mechanisms in the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) as well as the nonelaboration of the depressive problematic despite being perceived.

In addition, the initial findings illustrated that the amputee might preserve creativity in spite of the impact of the traumatic experience as well as adaptation to the first and the fifth inkblot of the Rorschach test and employing a part of lability contexts (B1) in order to achieve a personal creation through (TAT).