PSYCHIC DEPRIVATION OF A PERSON AS A DESTRUCTIVE PROCESS OF THE FUNCTIONING OF ITS PSYCHE

Abstract

The article argues that psychic deprivation of a person is a phenomenon of its psyche, but it is not a mental state. Psychic deprivation of a person, in its essence, is a destructive process of functioning of its psyche, which was caused by underdevelopment or incompleteness or destruction of certain mental parameters because of the subject’s dissatisfaction of those or other needs necessary for its normal life and development. For the reflection of structural changes in the psyche, psychic deprivation of man is a destructive change in the parameters of its mental processes, mental properties and mental formations, that reduces the process of operational and functional capacity of the psyche of the subject, that is, quality, efficiency of its functioning in accordance with the age norms of psychosocial development and norms of social life.