From the author: The article was published in: Problems and prospects for the development of pedagogical and psychological sciences in Ukraine: Proceedings of a distance scientific-practical conference. (m. Kharkiv, September 18, 2012). – Kharkiv: Skhidnoukrainsk organization “Center for Pedagogical Research”. 2012 – 104 p. pp. 9-12. DYNAMICS OF THE CLIENT'S TYPES OF PERSONAL ADAPTATION IN THE PROCESS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING IN TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS Personality adaptation is a term introduced by Paul Ware (Ware, 1983) to describe the structuring of personality, compatible with normal functioning, but demonstrating similarities with certain types mi mental disorders [12, p. 88]. He called adaptations using psychiatric terminology [3]. Each is the result of a psychological defense response to a particular pattern of early experience. The theory of personal adaptations is a so-called syndrome approach in transactional analysis, that is, the concept is based on a set of traits that often appear together [12, p. 89]. This approach is relatively new, since traditionally in transactional analysis, diagnosis is the identification of individual characteristics or pathologies (for example, script prohibitions, prescriptions, games, rackets, etc. [5]), and not typical sets of these characteristics. The work of P. Ware was supplemented by T. Kahler in the development of the therapy process model [10] and V. Joines (Vann Joines 1986, 1988) [7]. Joines proposed an alternative set of names for the adaptations to emphasize the fact that they represent the normal state and each of the adaptations has positive aspects. However, since clinical terminology is more familiar to most psychologists, we will use it in this work. In the history of depth psychology, there are several classifications of personality types based on clinical categories [2, 4]. The authors mentioned above identified six types of adaptations: obsessive-compulsive, schizoid, passive-aggressive, hysterical, paranoid and antisocial. Ware has observed that clients respond differently to interventions in the areas of thinking, feeling, or behavior. The order in which these spheres of the psyche are used turned out to be very significant [13, p. eleven]. To establish contact with a person, it is important to first use the least protected function (Var called it an open door) and, last but not least, use the most protected one (the so-called trap door). The main effort of therapy should be directed at the target door - a moderately protected function. Thus, the sequence of therapy is as follows: open door, target door, trap door. For each type of adaptation, Ware determined the sequence of areas: · Obsessive-compulsive. Driver Be perfect [5, p.177], sequence of doors: thinking, feeling, behavior. · Schizoid. Driver Be strong [5, p.179], doors: behavior (passive), thinking, feeling. · Passive-aggressive. Driver Try [5, p.179], doors: behavior (resisting), feeling, thinking. · Hysterical. Driver Please others [5, p.178], doors: feeling, thinking, behavior. · Paranoid. Driver Be perfect (in a parental role), doors: thinking, feeling, behavior. · Antisocial. Driver Try, doors: behavior (manipulative), feeling, thinking. More than one adaptation may be present at the same time, namely the earlier (primary, or survival adaptations) - schizoid and paranoid - are often combined with later secondary (executive) adaptations [7] . In a stable state, a person usually exhibits the qualities characteristic of his executive adaptation, but in a situation of stress the personality regresses to the level of defenses of his earlier survival adaptation. From the point of view of transactional analysis, it is this mechanism that explains the change in the habitual behavior of an individual under stress and determines the strategy and planning of the process of psychological counseling andpsychotherapy. To illustrate the practical application of this concept, let us turn to a client case for which supervision was received from a certified transactional analyst of the European Association of TA. A 28-year-old man, married for 6 years, without children, turned to a psychologist with a request to help him sort out his relationship with his wife and girlfriend. I could not give an answer to questions about the motivation for getting married and communicating with another woman, with whom, according to the client, they had a platonic relationship. During the first three sessions, he was silent almost the entire time and, after time, expressed gratitude for the fact that he could be himself in the office. Demonstrated driver behavior Be strong, ignored his needs, expressed rigid judgments. The current life situation represented a strong stress factor for the client, maintaining constant mental tension. Based on the above, we concluded that schizoid personal adaptation is relevant. Accordingly, therapeutic interventions at the first stage of work included confrontation of passive behavior [5 p. 197], stroking actions to satisfy one’s needs [11], homework for certain actions [7], decontamination of the Adult ego state [6, p. 196]. After five sessions, the client became noticeably more relaxed, talkative, and began to express and reflect on emotions. At work and in the family I returned to my usual way of life. In other words, he moved from a stressful state to his “working” state. At the same time, the manner of behavior during therapy sessions changed dramatically. Became inclined to challenge every thought expressed by the psychologist, even if it was only a word-for-word repetition of the client’s phrase. Thinking, which was a goal door at the first stage of work, became a trap door, interrupting contact with strong defense mechanisms [2, p. 130-155]. In countertransference, a previously absent feeling of physical struggle was noted [6, p. 218]. Accordingly, to promote the effectiveness of psychological work, psychotherapeutic interventions were further aimed at overcoming resistance in behavior (techniques aimed at joint actions of the client and the psychologist - drawing a map of one’s desires, creating a collage of life history), verbal expression and analysis of emotions (this “door” was a trap in case of actual schizoid adaptation, and in the case of passive-aggressive manifestation, it became a “door-goal”, which is progress in this case and makes it possible to work on the area that was subject to the greatest influence of psychological defenses), as well as confrontation of sabotage from the client’s thinking. 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