Methods of Practical Psychology. Reveal Yourself

This audiobook is perhaps the first attempt to view helping practices as a mirror that reflects cultural, historical, and social processes. A person who seeks help from a professional belongs to their time, language, and family tradition; they, like their need for change, are shaped by a shared cultural context. Practical psychology and psychotherapy provide tools that facilitate transformation; at the same time, the “changing person” comes to an awareness of their own “copyright” toward life. Psychodrama, as a method, has long and successfully revealed a person’s creative potential for both private and professional self-realization.

In the book you are offered, psychodrama appears not so much as a tool of influence as a tool for high-quality research into a person’s inner world and social relationships. The book includes works from different years, which allows the reader to notice the uneven “pulse” of cultural memory that slips away from everyday consciousness. Therefore, the book is addressed to a wide range of readers—both those interested in what happens in psychotherapeutic and training groups, and those who consider the psychological mechanisms of a person’s adaptation to culture “here and now,” the connection between personality and the culture of everyday life, and the place of a person in time. Psychologists, psychotherapists, and business trainers will find plenty of useful and interesting material in this book—from concrete methodological techniques to observations about the historical trajectories of foreign and domestic psychological practices.