Hronotopical model of psychotherapy

Abstract

The author proposes ideas about «сhronotope» of the psychotherapy including «structure of a psychotherapeutic situation» as spatial measurement, and «time of therapeutic process» as temporal. To construct a model of сhronotope of psychotherapy the scheme of «integrated psychological unit of the vital world» is used, which was reached as a result of theoretico-methodological synthesis of the basic psychological categories developed in Russian psychology: activity, relation, attitude and dialogue. The proposed model allows to systematise representations about base psychotherapeutic categories (such as client, psychotherapist, problem, therapeutic relations, contact, contract, etc.) and correlation between them. The model of psychotherapy chronotop can be used for empirical researches of psychotherapeutic process.

Keywords

• сhronotope of psychotherapy
• structure of a psychotherapeutic situation
• psychotherapeutic time
• the client
• the therapist
• a problem
• therapeutic relations