Abstract
The article addresses the issue of experiences of cultural mysticism in war psychotrauma in an African cultural context. It starts from the clinical observations of a fear of the mysticism among certain soldiers engaged in the war against the separatist groups “Amba Boys” in North-West and South-West Cameroon. The objective of the study was to understand the experiential experience of Cameroonian soldiers psychotraumatized by war in their cultural signifiers. The study was conducted using a phenomenological approach. The data was collected at the RAPHA-Psy Psychology Foundation, from four psychotraumatized soldiers, through semi-structured interviews. The results reveal that these soldiers experienced the psychotrauma as resulting from a complex of mysterious conflicts. Also, the psychotraumatic symptomatology was for them a set of manifestations of supernatural attacks. According to them, there are two worlds in the battlefield, one visible and the other invisible.
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