Email this article THE FUNCTIONS OF EGO BOUNDARIES IN THE INTERNAL DIS-COURSE OF A COUNSELING CLIENT
- Authors: Shapoval I.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg
- Issue: No 2 (2018)
- Pages: 83-89
- Section: Psychological sciences
- URL: https://vektornaukipedagogika.ru/jour/article/view/176
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18323/2221-5662-2018-2-83-89
- ID: 176
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The modern approaches to the psychological support emphasize the necessity to keep the boundaries of the psychologist’s interventions and the client’s changes during the counseling the main element of which is the internal discourse between his or her ego and non-ego. The orientation of psychological counseling, therapeutical, and correctional practice to the work with the psychological boundaries of a client and the lack of the studies on the issue of functions of the boundaries of the contact of his or her ego and non-ego, its formulation, analysis, and interpretation determine the urgency of this paper.
The theoretical interdisciplinary analysis of the problem allowed constructing the model of boundaries of ego and non-ego contact developed in the context of their functionality in the internal discourse: the provision of its possibility, control, and ego protection. It is stated that the quality and the dynamics of a discourse are determined by the dynamics of functions and dysfunctions of the boundaries: their destructiveness or deficiency transform a discourse to a monologue.
The analysis of the ability of the client’s ego boundaries to “shift” within the consulting processes of self-research and self-development, the identification of the experience of ego and non-ego self-opposition in the internal discourse speak for its important role in the co-changes of elements of a “single” ego and self-understanding. It is shown that the reconstruction of ego boundaries functions during counseling determine the transformations of the client’s internal discourse. As a consequence, a client acquires the ability to understand and transform the destructive stereotypes of self-perception and reintegrate his or her ego renewal. The presence of the systemic-functional relations between the ego boundaries functionality and the internal discourse constructiveness allows considering the functions of the client’s psychological boundaries during the counseling process as an object of transformation and the criterion of assessment of the psychological support effectiveness itself.
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Irina Anatolievna Shapoval
Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg
Author for correspondence.
Email: irinashapoval@yandex.ru
Doctor of Sciences (Pedagogics), Professor, professor of Chair of special psychology
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