THE PROBLEM OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: REHABILITATION ABILITY AWARENESS
Abstract. Offered to your attention an article devoted to a discussion of one of the most important tasks of the dialog-phenomenological psychotherapy. It's about restoring the ability of awareness. The author reveals the essence of this process, illustrating it with several cases from his private practice. Awareness is considered in the article as a therapeutic tool for creativity, which mediates the permanent process of reconstruction works of art – a field situation. The author examines the creative act as a joint – the therapist and client. Awareness, from the point of view, advanced by the work belongs to the situation. A person acts as its agent.
Keywords: dialog-phenomenological psychotherapy, awareness: awareness, consciousness, experience, creativity, the situation, the agents of the field, a phenomenon.
Pogodin Igor –PhD – philosophy doctor (psychological sciences), the associate professor, director of Institute for Gestalt (Belarus), the conducting trainer and a member of Professional Council of Moscow Gestalt Institute. The Gestalt-therapist (certificates: MGI, the European Certificate of Gestalt-therapist), supervisor (certificates: MGI, Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt (EPG)) and teacher of Gestalt-therapy, the expert in the field of crisis psychotherapy. Main Editor of «Vestnik of Gestalt-therapy». A full member of the European Association of Gestalt-therapy (EAGT), the International Federation of the organizations teaching the Gestalt, the Belarus Association for Psychotherapy. The scientific adviser of the department of crisis psychology of social – psychological center of the Belarus State Pedagogical University (BSPU).
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