14 that in order to understand the psychological sequelae on this family resulting from the forced disappearance of Mr. Santiago Gómez-Palomino, it is necessary to understand first who he was and what he meant to his family. Mr. Santiago GómezPalomino was the eldest son, the only member of the family with a steady job. He lived with his mother and younger brother and sisters, performing a paternal role — he was active and caring. Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón is a woman with Andean features and clothing. Quechua is her mother tongue, for which reason she prefers her children to speak this language inside the family, as if she felt they can express what she has had to live through in a better way, in spite of the fact that she also speaks Spanish. She lives in the city of Lima with her four children (three daughters and a son) and with the posthumous daughter of her late son Mr. Santiago GómezPalomino. She has got eight children by three different relationships, the fathers of whom have not lived together with her. Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón gives vent to her feelings by crying when the subject of her son’s disappearance is brought up, evidencing her suffering to be still current at present. The disappearance of her son meant a valuable moral financial and family loss —his brother and sisters lost a supporting, stimulating father figure, who is emotionally present. At the time Mr. Santiago Gómez-Palomino was abducted, he was in charge of five of his brothers and sisters. Both her children and Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón have pointed out that there has been a turning point in her personality, which evidences the mark left in her psyche and her subjectivity by the traumatic event. The death of a son overturns the order of generations and is always a cause of great psychological suffering. Hence, the disappearance of her son marked Mrs. Palomino-Buitrón with an extreme experience of suffering, which was converted into aggression and hostility, especially towards her other minor children. As a consequence, this also brought thoughts of suicide into the mind of Mrs. Victoria Margarita PalominoBuitrón. The constant daily visits to clinics and hospitals for almost a year led her to abandon her minor children. The feeling of guilt that accompanies the whole mourning process has been increased owing to the fact that it was Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón who asked Santiago’s common-law wife for them to leave her house, and this is why Mrs. Palomino-Buitrón feels that her request was the reason why her son was at his cousin’s home, María Elsa Chipana-Flores. This prompts in her persecutory fantasies in connection with the daughter of Mr. Santiago Gómez-Palomino, as Mrs. Palomino-Buitrón thinks what was done to her son may be done to the girl, and this is why she isolates her and does not trust anyone who gets near her. Mrs. Victoria Margarita Palomino-Buitrón experiences three types of psychosomatic sequelae, such as three facial paralyses, rheumatism and osteoporosis. Likewise, the traumatic event caused her a chronic depression owing to an unelaborated mourning process, depression which she has passed on both to her own children and to Mr. Santiago Gómez-Palomino’s daughter, thus evidencing a transgenerational chain transmitting non-resolved, non-elaborated suffering. The girl Ana María Gómez-Guevara, posthumous daughter of Mr. Santiago GómezPalomino, is 13 years old and attends sixth grade at a primary school. Since she was fifteen days old, she has been brought up by her grandmother, who suffers