The communicative approach to the research of the problem of personality deformation

In modern psychologicalscince, the problem of personality deformation is topical but not investigated yet. In addition, the study of the peculiarities of deformation of the communicative nature significantly reduces the angle of its consideration. The analysis of literature on the topic led to the conclusion that, nowadays, in psychology there are no clear criteria, mechanisms, and classifications describing the phenomenon of deformation of personality. We consider it possible to expand the range of consideration of the problem of deformation of personality, having defined its communicative nature. The communicative approach to the problem of deformation of personality makes it possible to study the personality of the subject from the standpoint of interaction with the outside world, other people, as well as himself. In this regard the attention is focused on the study of the so-called types of deformations with a pathological communicative aspect. In the theory of psychological systems, V.E. Klochko showed that communication is a part of self-organization and mental space of the person expressing the dynamism and direction of man's attitude to reality. Thus, we can assume that deformation of the communicative world of personality leads to disintegration of the psychological system of man. In the context given above, the empirical part of our research study is determined by researching deformation, the contradictions in the communicative world of a chemically dependent person. We have used a 'method of modelling the communicative world of personality' (MMKM) by V.I. Cabrin, which allows to reconstruct the basic coordinates of the living world of a person as a communicative space: the communicative space (internal and external) and the communicative time. The study involved 50 people who were receiving treatment at the drug addicts' rehabilitation centre "Crossroads of seven roads" in Irkutsk. These results led to the conclusion that the communicative approach to the study of a chemically dependent person can detect distortions, contradictions, both in personality and identity, in collaboration with the social environment. Under the condition of deformation of the communicative world of a chemically dependent person contradictions between the individual and its external communicative spaces are revealed. Some of the features characterizing the trends in the communicative world of a chemically dependent person, which demonstrate the dominance of the communicative stress state mainly in the inner communicative space, are shown.

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