Abstract
The Russian war crimes in Ukraine traumatize the psyche by violent alienation from humanity - they destroy the very foundations of the solidarity in people's life and the basic conditions of mental health: security of existence, justice and freedom. But such frustrations as hopelessness and “compensatory violence”, the most destructive reactions to this alienation, are countered by the real prospect for reliable restoration of these foundations in the near future - Ukraine with the help of the entire democratic world will protect goodness, humanity from the maddened evil. Thus, the main article hypothesis is: the righteousness of Ukraine's war against Russia and the real perspective of humanistic future after our victory is a guarantee for the effectiveness of the logo-therapeutic approach applied to psychological traumas obtained during this war. A significant consequence of a psychological trauma is loss by an individual of interest in his/her present or future (Z. Freud). Therefore, a necessary condition and a powerful factor of psychological rehabilitation for people with psychological traumas is the restoration of such interest. An individual's interests, which fill him/her with vital energy, are integrated into his/her meaning of life. The vital meaning of life is a necessary condition and a leading factor for an individual's normal formation and functioning, for his/her mental health (V. Frankl). Such meanings are based on universal values: 1) creativity; 2) experiences; 3) attitudes. The article substantiates the hypothesis that if the logo-therapeutic approach is applied to the psychological traumas obtained because of Russia's maleficent war in Ukraine, first of all, the attitude values “work”, which motivational and dynamic basis is freedom of choice manifested by an individual - the ability to choose one's attitude to one's own fate. In logo-therapy, a universal sanogenic attitude to all significant losses and destructions is based on an individual's belief in “super-meaning” - in the existing God who loves people, who gives a high meaning to the existence of humanity at all and every person and who nourishes hope for a happy ending of earthly suffering. We have shown how such faith overcomes the state of hopelessness, loss of interest in life, etc. caused by psychological traumas. The working procedure for clients with neurotic-fatalistic fixation on the consequences of their psychological traumas is highlighted. The efforts applied by an individual during this procedure is to make an existential choice of good, manifested ultimately is love, in the ability to care sincerely. An individual who cares with love feels his/her life-giving force, which fills him/her with sanogenic comfort - a powerful incentive to interest in life.
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