https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520905100 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1–17 © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0886260520905100 journals.sagepub.com/home/jiv Original Research Role of Psychological Makeup in Psychological Rehabilitation of Acid Attack Victims Shalini Mittal, 1,2 Tushar Singh, 2 and Sunil K. Verma 3 Abstract From eve-teasing to more aggressive forms of sexual violence, subjection of women to sexual violence has been on the rise. One heinous form of sexual violence is the acid attack. Acid attack refers to the intentional act of throwing acid on an individual with the intent of harming, torturing, disfiguring, injuring, or killing them. Despite an increase in the number of reported cases of acid attacks, the initial nonavailability of strict legislatures and underreporting of the crime have led to gross underrepresentation of the acid attack victims in the scientific literature. Moreover, most researches focus on the impact of acid attack and not on the process of recovery for these victims. Hence, this paper attempts to explore the role of psychological makeup in the psychological rehabilitation of acid attack victims. This study adopted the homogeneous purposive sampling method. The sample consisted of 30 female victims of acid attack between the age group of 18 to 25 years. The narratives of these victims focusing on their 1 Amity University Lucknow Campus, India 2 Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India 3 Vivekanand College, University of Delhi, India Corresponding Authors: Tushar Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India. Emails: tusharsinghalld@gmail.com; tushar.psycho@bhu.ac.in Sunil K. Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Vivekanand College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110095, India. Email: verma.sunil77@gmail.com 905100JIV XX X 10.1177/0886260520905100Journal of Interpersonal ViolenceMittal et al. research-article 2020