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Илья Андреевич Басов. Psychological support at the last stage of life path of human
Existential and psychological aspects of death
A holistic approach to the device of personality
"Pragmatic" classification of types of death
The main provisions of psychological support of the dying process
PSDP Axioms
Psychological support of the relatives of the dying
Dealing with Suffering and Pain
Methodological and material equipment, the effectiveness of PSDP
Invitation to further work
Bibliographic list:
Appendix No. 2. "How to talk about difficult things"
Appendix No. 3. "Positions of a psychologist when working with people"
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Here we need to digress from the stated topic, since further material will be based on a number of theses, without at least a brief coverage of which its consideration is difficult (they (theses) were presented in more detail by us at the LIX International Scientific and Practical Conference "Worldscience: problemsandinnovation"11).
We believe that it is correct to consider a person's personality as a threefold structure: body-thoughts-feelings (it is obvious that we think something – we can observe thoughts; we experience something, for example, love, resentment; and we do something (click the mouse, scroll through the pages). These intersecting dimensions form a personality, where, in particular, our complexes, attitudes, roles live; and (and in this we see the relationship, unity) manifest themselves through the body, thoughts and feelings.
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In readiness and transition to a contemplative position, it is not difficult to see a somato-psychological unity that creates harmony of the physical and psychological, allowing an aging person to calmly relate to the past, present and future. Against the background of a decrease in physical strength, a constant feeling of physical malaise, on the eve of the end of life, such a position reflects "… the main questions about the meaning of human existence, self-knowledge … such a turn of psychological life during late adulthood and old age turns out to be a happy form of psychological aging for a person, providing "consent" with senile changes in physical and mental states, satisfaction with today's life, full acceptance of the environment."13
Spiritual and existential understanding of life, its individual stages leads a person to cope with the fear of death, to "outgrow" the idea that it negates any successes achieved and efforts made. Filling life fragments and its lived parts by the meaning, understanding their value, creates a subjective feeling of correctness, truth of the path in a person. It also opens up certain fragments in the future, building internal connections that were not initially manifested for the personality, which largely support the desire to live and interest in oneself (i.e. considering access to spiritual meanings as an existential task of late adulthood and old age, we can see the manifestation of its solution in the inner harmonious state of personality, acceptance of existential givens). The fulfillment of the existential task of understanding one's life (general principles and an example of understanding life, in a popular science format, are also given in Appendix No. 2) includes understanding the inherent meanings and those fragments of life that a person evaluates negatively as dysfunctional. But when we subjecting them to secondary (tertiary, etc.) semantic processing it will lead us to acceptance of our personality and life in general (i.e., including death). We come to the conclusion that "all this was not in vain", "it was not in vain". Such comprehension (the discovery of the not obvious significance of some moments of life), a kind of pilgrimage to one's own Self, of course, requires a developed reflection and experience of self-contemplation from the individual, and failure to fulfill this task deprives a person of existential fullness and existential joy.
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