Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching
Vol. 14 No. 3 (2026)

The Architecture of Healing: A Screenplay Depicting the Three Stages of Healing After Trauma

Angeline Beauty Stacia (Petra Christian University)
Jenny Mochtar (Petra Christian University)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2026

Abstract

The screenplay The Architecture of Healing explores trauma and recovery through a psychological grounded narrative of Sarah’s life after rape. Inspired by the writer’s true story, the screenplay draws from Judith Herman’s concept of C-PTSD and her three-stage model of healing. Using drama as the genre of the story, the creative work focuses on Sarah’s journey towards healing as a gradual process and life after rape, accompanied by symptoms from C-PTSD and Rape Trauma Syndrome (RTS), developed by Ann Wolbert Burgess and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom. In the end, Sarah learns to take a leap by sharing bits of her story to someone trusted as part of her healing, though it risks re-traumatization. Ultimately, her reconnection stage begins at the end of the story. In other words, the ending of the story is the beginning of her life.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

sastra-inggris

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Kata Kita is a journal dedicated to the publication of students research in the areas of literature, language, and teaching. In the study of language, it covers issues in applied linguistics such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, sylistics, corpus ...