The practice of psychological work with a diverse clientele (patients, those undergoing training, who decided to improve personal, etc, etc.) often has as its purpose or one of its goals the expansion of consciousness (improvement, enhancement, development, change, enrichment, transformation, etc.), so the choice of the term "expansion of consciousness" is rather arbitrary, but nevertheless made quite deliberately, as is the purpose of psychological work avoids, on the one hand, advertising (which is felt in such phrases as "enrichment of consciousness", the "elevation of consciousness", "improvement of consciousness") and, on the other hand, stressed the value-neutral ("transformation of consciousness", "restructuring of consciousness", "changing consciousness"), thereby claiming the positive meanings of psychologist's activities and its responsibility for the results of his work.
This text will be analyzed only to those areas of work of the psychologist, associated with group and intergroup processes and phenomena, thereby excluding from consideration such methods of psychological work as psychoanalysis, counselling, individual psychotherapy, etc. Such narrowing of the subject indicated in the title of the work as "socio-psychological technologies" is due to the professional interests of the author, and doubt, will sverhozhirenie the subject of the analysis to the impossibility to isolate in existing technologies, anything total and non-empty. After all, the search for General principles of work with consciousness was the main goal of this work.
This type of group work include psychodrama and role training. It has a lot in common with groupdynamics training: the use of the principle "here and now", if not de jure, then de facto, the principles of organization of exchange of views and experiences resemble those used in groupdynamics work. But there is one very important difference — the object of analysis is not something that manifests itself "course", and what is recreated in the image and likeness of what is happening "there-and-then", is recreated based on the memories and fantasies of group members (as in psychodrama) or construction a typical real-life situations (role-training).
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