Triads method in psychological studies of complex objects

Abstract

The article deals with one of the variants of case study method – the method of triads for study of psychological consequences of the high intensity stressors influence on person. By comparing the three ca- ses – these patients with brain tumor diagnose, the specificity of the method is determined. It is shown that with method of cases comparison it is possible to distinguish the individual reactions to stress, determine the direction of the analysis of sample data, identify the trends of development of pathogenic mechanisms. Using the method of triads make it possible to identify the developmental mechanisms of such processes, with minimum loss of informative studies.