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Dr. Maksim Goncharov, MD, PhD is a well-known psychiatrist and
psychotherapist in the far east of Russia. He is a board member of the
World Association of Positive Psychotherapy (WAPP), World and European
Psychotherapy.
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Kernberg, O. F. (2012). Suicide prevention for psychoanalytic institutes and societies. Journal of
the American Psychoanalytic Association, 60, 707-719.
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Linley, P.O. (2006). Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future. The Journal of
Positive Psychology; 1(1): 3–16
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Peseschkian, H, A. Remmers (2013). Positive Psychotherapie. Reinhardt Verlag, München
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Great thanks to my friend and colleagues Theo Cope and John Sutton
who made my English readable, and thus the book available to others.
Thanks to all mankind, the need for greater unity and the need for
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proved effectiveness.
described were actual, basic and the key conflict. However, their
operationalization was presented in rather general terms: reaction
and was taught just in the training process; the concept of personality
structure generally appeared only in recent years.
constantly, they are always with us. However, not all of them have a
chapter I
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An actual
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Typically, a person can relatively easily describe the impact of this event
on his life situation and tell us the exact time of its occurrence. When
psychiatrists question the patient about life before the disorder, they
and power of the stress effects, and assess the degree of potential risk
of the disorders. However, not all people are equally responsive to the
same stresses. The magnitude of stress and the extent of the negative
impact depend on the individual and cultural features of a concrete
person. This should be considered in practical work with clients.
the time of this event’s appearance, and argues rather broader temporal
categories: «we fought during the past few years», «our relationship
problems (we get angry, become depressed and feel misunderstood, live
ailments, begins to care more about the body and health, tries hard to lose
«eat over the grief», refusal of food - «slimming mania»), sexuality (Don
Juanism, nymphomania or abstaining from sex), functional disorders and
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Pic. 8 Spreading the mental and psychosomatic disorders on the model of four areas of life
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the object which it was originated with, and on the subject which it
Operationalization
2) Content
the values and norms of the social group of the individual. These
includes: punctuality, orderliness, cleanliness, obedience, courtesy,
honesty, thrift, justice, faithfulness, diligence, reliability, accuracy, and
conscientiousness.
Primary capabilities represent the basic capacity to love, and
Due to the fact that the client is able to share his/her emotional
to normality.
The conflict and reaction to conflict should be clearly
chapTer II
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T he cause of our failures are often our so called ‘life concepts’, which
indeed are our inherited family concepts, and which in psychology
or psychotherapy are termed basic concepts because they are planted
into the foundation of our life that is our childhood. These concepts are
in other words ingrained and deep-seated views to a life transmitted
Some of them are great help and facilitate our lives, while others turn
and problems.
Fortunately, not each family concept will become a conflict
in the future. Some concepts are potentially more conflictual than
others. For example, the concept «a happy life is possible only if you
have got high education» will be much narrower and potentially
more conflictual than the concept, «happiness is possible in any
case.» Not having a possibility, for different reasons, to get higher
education, a person may assume that he or she is doomed to
misfortune, and the fact of a lack of education will testify that one
is unhappy. In order to make life happier, this person will have to
overcome a lot of doubts related to prior beliefs, but it is better to
call them superstitions.
Concepts are always built around values, and as it is well known,
values are not always universal but rather culturally determined. In
other words, what is valued in one culture may have absolutely no
value in another. This is normal and natural. Now it becomes clearer
how many problems we make up and invent by ourselves and thereby
functions to satisfy our emotional needs. So, then, we can see that
conditions:
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I trust myself», «I always need someone who would help me», «First
me, then all the others», «I am a loser. I am an untalented person», «So
what, anyway everything is meaningless».
The concept «You» describes our ideas of partnership. It is
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function and to be supported. The model for this is the example which
was given to us by our parents in their relation to each other.
Examples: «I want to establish the same harmonious family as
my parents» or «I will never marry; I won’t have children and continue all
this rubbish in which my parents are engaged», «Marriage is a burden».
The concept «We» describes the developed relationship to one’s
surrounding environment and the society. Here one is concerned with
how to perceive it, what to expect and how to interact with it.
Examples: «Guests are God’s gift», «Relatives are like boots, the
more one is close to them, the more they squeeze», «You are nothing,
your people are everything», «We are on your own and others on their
own», «We all are leaves of one branch and fruits of one tree», «It is
better to have a rat in a cellar, than relatives in the house».
The concept of the «Primary-We» describes the family ideology,
which contains views to the importance of clear life goals and values,
religions, philosophies of life and worldview, that is, the fundamental
values which determine the character of life tasks.
Examples: «There is a higher power, merciful and fair», «the
World was made comfortable», «Live in pleasure, not thinking about
death and what will happen after it!»
understand how we are treated and accepted through the time others
spend with us, how others are patient with us, how others are tender
my mother was angry, my help in cleaning the house could calm her
down». Here orderliness and cleanliness allowed one to get some love,
patience, and perhaps contact.
For example, the conception we are already familiar with «I am
worth something when I achieve something» is localized in the concept
of «I», contains an element of emotional needs, expressed through
relationship (primary capability of love) and the social norms, through
my mother would become kind and soft and would allow me a little
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the domain of contacts and occurs in the relation with the husband.
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clients are able to verbalize the reason they either are open (honest)
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Reference:
Author: Dr Maksim Goncharov
Translation: Dr Maksim Goncharov
English editor: Theo Cope
Design: Dmitry and Yuliya Khomenko
ISBN: 978-5-9905455-1-9
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