THE IMAGINATIVE SPHERE OF THE PSYCHE AS THE FOCUS OF WORKING WITH CLIENT PROBLEMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PRACTICE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of working with the client’s problem in a psychotherapeutic practice-oriented psychology. The authors rely on the provisions formulated by leading Russian psychologists about the imaginative sphere and participation in the thinking of sensory images that trigger simultanisation – the simultaneous flow of mental processes at the rational and irrational levels, on the idea of the translational function of the figurative sphere of a person, providing the possibility of deep contact of the subject with hidden areas of the inner world, on the provisions of the quantum paradigm of consciousness in physics, etc. The article analyses two groups of psychotherapeutic approaches to working with a client’s problem, depending on which emphasis prevails. In the framework of the first, there is a predominant contribution to the extraction of images from the unconscious and their interpretation. These approaches provide a psychotherapeutic effect. The second group focuses on the transformation of the image of the client’s problem in the psychotherapeutic process by the using of special procedures, that actualises the transition to a higher level of client’s functioning in different spheres of life. It is such approaches that are most in demand in modern conditions.