Personalistic Analysis of Post-Traumatic Deformation of Conscious Processes

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the sources and features of post-traumatic deformation of the conscious processes of victims from the perspective of a new direction in counseling — cultural and historical personalism. For this purpose, a psychological analysis of the social form of psychological trauma is undertaken, which allows us to explain the obsessive memories and post-traumatic reactivity of the victims as their own, but objectified and alienated, neurotic activity in the sphere of kaleidoscopic consciousness. This neurotic activity also has an existential side: the victim seeks to free himself from the psychological power of the participant in the traumatic situation, on whom he pro-jects all the blame for the pain of his experiences.