Abstract
The aim of this paper is to examine philosophical reflection as a tool applied to assist individuals in a search for grounds to identify themselves, to grasp who they are and what they are destined to do in this world, especially after surviving a traumatic event. Philosophy is an area whose huge therapeutic potential is often overlooked - potential related to its freedom from excessive scientism, broader horizons in comparison with psychology or sociology, with its critical, rational reason and a well-developed methodology which makes it possible to extrapolate methods from adjacent spheres onto the laws of the development of human consciousness. Thus the paper will attempt to restore the status of philosophy as a human-centered discipline which might help us to grasp the essence of our true selves and to realize that shedding the old, growing the new, returning to the old in the new shape, for instance as a harmless memory - in a constant dialectical flow the human gains a weapon of survival in the world, where not only the other (be it nature, society, enemy or friend), but some parts of oneself may traumatize one.
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