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This study examines the psychic processes at work in a psychotherapeutic framework based on Dixit mediation, with a population that is still underrepresented in the scientific literature: young adults who were abused during childhood. This study aims to shed light on the specific mechanisms at work in the transition to adulthood for this clinical population and the way in which the mediation framework, facilitated by the Dixit board game, can initiate a resilient dynamic. The qualitative analysis of the data, centered on a psychodynamic frame of reference, is presented in the form of two case studies (Ophélie, aged eighteen, and Bryan, aged twenty-three). The trauma of abuse and its effects on psychic functioning can considerably hinder the process of becoming an adult on several counts. It seems, however, that the intra- and intersubjective processes at work in the Dixit framework allow patients to progressively enter into adulthood through a state of associative thinking involving a progressive historicization process.