PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE TO ADULTS AT THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN POST-TRAUMATIC RECOVERY AND SELF-GROWTH, BASED ON PSYCHOSYNTHESIS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/2312-8437.54.2024-2.4Keywords:
liminality, liminal pause, identification, post-traumatic development, psychosynthesis, disidentification, Self, conscious Self, subpersonalitiesAbstract
The purpose of this article is to theoretically explore the peculiarities of providing psychological assistance to adults based on psychosynthesis during the liminal period between their post-traumatic recovery and self-development. The research methodology involves theoretical generalization and synthesis of classical, modern, and original scientific sources that address the problem of liminality and psychosynthesis as a method of post-traumatic development for adults. The scientific novelty lies in the authors’ proposal of the concept of a “liminal pause”, based on the dominance of a protective subpersonality within the structure of a traumatized client’s personality, based on psychological assistance experiences during the full-scale war. Furthermore, the phenomenon of liminality is conceptualized through the interplay of external and internal dimensions within the fundamental concepts of psychosynthesis. The conclusions define post-traumatic adult development as a liminal process, in which threshold self-awareness and threshold self-transformation are differentiated. It was found that the main methodological stages of psychosynthesis coincide with the psychoeducational tasks of post-traumatic development as a targeted self-development process for adults within various forms of organized psychological assistance. Central to this process is the development of the conscious self’s ability to disidentify from divergent subpersonalities in the structure of threshold self-awareness (“knowing oneself”). It was established that self-regulation and self-realization, as processes of threshold self-transformation in adults during the post-liminal period, are achieved through the development of willpower. Achieving identificational uncertainty – where any subpersonality is recognized by the adult client as a false identification – enables the capacity for “self-possession” and “self-transformation”, aimed at the maximal realization of the Self, the theoretical analysis of which is also presented in the article.
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