The potential of different psychoanalytic theories for knowing and understanding of impairments of socially maladapted minors’ self-image components

- Грись, А.М. (2017) The potential of different psychoanalytic theories for knowing and understanding of impairments of socially maladapted minors’ self-image components Актуальні проблеми психології, 16 (11). pp. 23-33. ISSN 2072-4772

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Abstract

The article presents the theoretical analysis of the problem of knowing and understanding of impairments of self-image components, which can be used at work with socially maladapted minors. Certain theoretical concepts that underlie the author's model are discussed, in particular those relating to impairments of self-image and other structures. The main impairments are described, such as a sense of rupture of Self-integrity as a result of total implosion. In this state, identity, consciousness, and ability to comprehend personal experience disappear in the space of archetypal reality. A child experiences threats that become the result of impairment of self-perception processes, therefore vulnerable “true Self” regress to the unconscious, and for it protection, a masked “false Self” is created, which takes the place of the true Self and interacts with the world. The article emphasizes that encapsulation is an unnatural state, a serious fault that has disastrous consequences. Escape, originally intended for temporary protection – to protect, to save themselves and to take a pull themselves, turns into isolation because of lack of experience of authentic relationships. Understanding by psychologists of internal contradictions and psychological mechanisms of functioning and development of different aspects of Self will help them to select adequate strategies for interpretation of the maladaptation causes and factors, and, consequently, appropriate psychotherapeutic interventions.

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