USING OF A NARRATIVE AS A METHOD OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF PERSONALITY

Abstract

The article deals with the problem how to take a narrative as a method of socio-psychological diagnostic of personality. The author admits possibility of using narrative psychotherapy for these purposes with applying of the projective methodology “My Fatherland and I”. The demonstrate the approaches to narrative psychol- ogy, as a direction of science, which was studied by a number of leading domestic and foreign scholars. The meaning of human life and the formation of certain patterns of their behavior are the result of the personality and the world interaction that expressed in the form of a message, although it does not always have a logical
explanation. Messages can be also verbal, written and graphic.

The personality perception of itself happens directly through the formation of narratives that what man- ifested in the form of events that is important to it. As a rule, they usually pass a stages of comprehension and evaluation that determines their importance. At the same time, the uniqueness of narratives confirms the uniqueness of the individual.

The article gives specification for the author's projective method “My Fatherland and I” with theoretical and practical explanation for its using.

We have comprehended the socio-psychological readiness to protect the Fatherland as a state of readiness for action that manifested the understanding of their emotions, as a result of experience as a psychological narrative.

Finally narrative begins to be realized firstly in thought and then in real events. In the end, by means of describing events in a fairy tale ore in a picture with a description of things that was depicted person reports that all in narrative.