The existential landscape of personality life-designing after trauma

- Титаренко, Тетяна Михайлівна (orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-0894) (2019) The existential landscape of personality life-designing after trauma Наукові студії із соціальної та політичної психології, 47 (44). pp. 7-15. ISSN 2309-8287

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Abstract

A new concept of the personal life-designing landscape as an area of life with certain functional-dynamic characteristics and specific semantic configuration is included in the thesaurus of psychological concepts. The attention is paid to the differences between the concept of the personal life-designing landscape and the traditional concept of life path, which lie in the more local scale of the landscape, and is set by actual life tasks statement and finding updated value-semantic landmarks. The following types of landscapes with functional unity are defined: pragmatic, hedonistic, consumer, service and existential. It is shown that the existential landscape accumulates the experience of the post-traumatic stage of life as a special, awareness of the different meaningful content of the new life route. The basic functionality of the existential landscape has been found, which is to create the conditions for reflection, reinterpretation, and integration of traumatic experiences that a person acquires in a border situation, in dramatic or tragic circumstances. The existential landscape is regarded as the shortest path for the individual to recover and improve his/her psychological health. There is revealed the dependence of the length of individual stay within the existential landscape on the force of trauma (peculiarities of losses, the intensity of painful memories) and the hardiness resource. It was invoked the options of the existential landscape directing: (a) for search for professional self-realization, which requires strengthening of the self-identification mode; (b) for the issue of cooperation, which requires strengthening of the regime of dialogue; (c) for distance from certain people, which needs to be strengthened by the autonomy regime; (d) for the search for stable forms of everyday life, which requires a strengthening of the practice regime.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	personal life-designing landscape, existential landscape, value-semantic landmarks, life path, types of landscapes, post-traumatic stage of life, traumatic experience.
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology
Divisions:	The Institute of Social and Political Psychology > Department of Social Psychology of Personality
Depositing User:	Тетяна Михайлівна Титаренко
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2020 21:55
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2020 21:55
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/721500

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