Neuropsychological Approach to the Problem of Aggressive Manifestations of Personality

Inna Chukhrii,Liliia Nemash,Yuliia Melnyk,Anna Zaplatynska,Tetiana Komar,Nina Liesnichenko

doi:10.18662/brain/12.3/217

Abstract

The article presents a neuropsychological analysis of aggressive manifestations of normal personality and aggression of persons with brain dysfunction. Theoretical analysis of foreign and domestic works on neuropsychological correction of aggressive behavior is carried out. The neuropsychological program on correctional and prophylactic work for persons with affective-personal disorders is offered, considering the peculiarities of determination of aggressive manifestations of personality. The essence of the concept of "aggression" is specified. The types and functions of aggression of personality of different nature are considered: positive, ambivalent, negative. The neuropsychological causes of aggression in connection with the conditionality of aggression by situational and individual and psychological personal factors according to the scheme "personality - aggressive reaction - situation - neuropsychological factor" are clarified. The multifactorial (combination of neuropsychological and social conditions of a formation of aggression) genesis of aggressive behavior in personality disorders, the basis of which is the destructive level of anxiety, which originates from childhood, is analyzed. The integration of neuropsychological and socio-psychological approaches to the study of the problem of aggression is presented.

Highlights

Manifestations of aggression of personality are among the most important components in its structure, a natural manifestation of human life, an adequate psychological property of the subject-creator of his border living space provided a high level of his psychological culture, motivation and ability to turn aggression into an optimal personal resource or successful solution of a psychological or social problem
In human aggression and personal aggressiveness there is always a measure of the ratio of mental, social and biological, which causes the complexity of the phenomenological assessment of aggressive manifestations, in particular the neuropsychological features of aggressiveness of personality
Individual aggressive manifestations of personality have their etiology and specific features, which explains the use of a complex individual approach by clinical psychologists or neuropsychologists in each case of diagnosis of a high level of aggression

Summary

Introduction

Manifestations of aggression of personality are among the most important components in its structure, a natural manifestation of human life, an adequate psychological property of the subject-creator of his border living space provided a high level of his psychological culture, motivation and ability to turn aggression (and his own and other people's) into an optimal personal resource or successful solution of a psychological or social problem.

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