PERSONAL REFLECTION AS A MECHANISM OF SELF-DECEPTION AWARENESS BY THE CLIENT IN EXISTENTIAL-ORIENTED COUNSELING
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7235-2022-2-20-35
Abstract
Aim. Identification of the features of personal reflection as a mechanism of awareness of self-deception by the client in existentially-oriented counseling.
Methodology. On the basis of theoretical analysis and generalization of research by domestic and foreign authors, the concepts of self-deception and personal reflection are clarified, the place of personal reflection in existential counseling as a method of working with clients’ self-deception is determined.
Results. The main characteristics, causes and consequences of self-deception for clients in the practice of psychological counseling, difficulties encountered when working with self-deception, the possibility of using personal reflection in detecting contradictions in the client’s ideas about himself, about the role of Others in the occurrence of psychological problems in the client, taking responsibility for his life and making a choice among alternatives are revealed. It is noted that personal reflection in the existential approach is a means of distinguishing between the true and untrue being of the client, I-real and I-fake. Self-deception is revealed as an integral part of human existence and the resultant of individual experience and interaction of a number of protective mechanisms that perform the functions of reducing the level of existential anxiety and fears and arising in connection with the encounter with the ultimate realities of existence.
Theoretical and/or practical significance. The article offers a brief analysis of the phenomena of personal reflection and deception. The possibilities of personal reflection as a mechanism of awareness of self-deception by the client in existentially-oriented counseling are revealed.
About the Author
O. I. Kayasheva
Moscow Region State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga I. Kayasheva – cand. Sci. (Psychology), Assoc. Prof. of the department of Psychological counseling
ul. Very Voloshinoi 24, Moscow region, Mytishchi 141014
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