THE PROBLEM OF A PERSONS IDENTITY IN PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

The culture created by a person in the XX century put at stake the existence of
mankind, bringing into the forefront such schools of thought as philosophy of life, existential
philosophy and literature, which made the problem of the authentic I of a person the most
topical one. The research of this problem involves such humanities as history, sociology
and psychology. The author would like to trace the change of the dynamics of researches in
psychology, beginning with the study of an abstract person and to the comprehension of the
problem of a person in modern society. Besides, the author is interested in the exact aspects
of a mentally healthy and integral personality, and in the methods of treatment of neurosis
existing in modern psychotherapy. Though the study does not claim to be exhaustive, still
the research brings out the key developments in the fi eld of studying the identity, being used
in modern psychology and psychotherapy