The Concept 'Psychological Space of the Personality' and Its Heuristic Potential

摘要

The purpose of this article is to substantiate and define the concept "psychological space of the personality" and outline the prospects for its application in various fields of psychological theory and practice. I am interested, in the main, not in the ontological or epistemo-logical but in the purely pragmatic aspects of this term. Namely, how can this concept be operationalized? What methods can be used in its diagnosis and investigation? And finally, how can these theoretical ideas be applied in practical psychology (for example, in devising programs of individual psychotherapy or for personal growth training)? And so I shall elaborate the construct in two main areas—the uncovering of its phenomenology and the understanding of its genesis.