DIALOG AS A METHOD OF COUNSELING (SPIRITU ALLY ORIENTED METHOD)

Dialog is considered as a method of practical psychology of personalit y in the context of individual counseling. Methodological and theoreti cal issues of practical psychology as an independent humanitarian disc ipline are discussed. The necessity of assuming of the spiritual Self is foundated while its repression by the ongoing Self leads to mental disturbances. A clinical case in analyzed in which recovering of the i nner dialog between the spiritual Self and the ongoing Self results in disappearance of painful symptoms of such repression. Principles of d ialogic counseling are formulated.