This study deals with a woman who was presumably victimized and later became a victimizer. The woman analyzed in this study reported that 30 years ago in her twentieth year for more than a six-month period in her last year of university, a handsome friend turned rapist brutally and repeatedly assaulted her sexually. She displayed most of the conditions associated with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) - an anxiety disorder that develops in response to a psychologically distressing event outside usual human experience. Since my narrative will focus on her as a type of victim who turns perpetrator, her specific actions viewed as representative of a broad type of action associated with similar offenders will be the center of my attention. Her antisocial and disruptive behavior, rather than her psychiatric or legal classifications will occupy this report.



Key Words: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Deception, Interpersonal Communications.


1. Correspondence to: Dr. Richard Fiordo, School of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.A.