NARRATIVE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY - PATIENTS REPORTS ON PERSONAL STORY (PARTI)

The first attempt to define the functions of narratives in psychothera peutic process was realized by analyzing of the formal characteristics and the peculiarities of content. The analysis of the different viewp oints on the narrative as the mean of organization of personal experie nce and its relation to internal structures and emotional states of th e narrator was made. The authors have proposed their own definition of narrative based on the linguistic approach to it. The hypotheses that the content of narrative includes more information about personality problems that other types of discourse and transforms the emotional st ate and stimulation of the reciprocal reaction of listener are empiric ally verified. The confirmed hypotheses permit to develop proposed mod el of psychotherapeutic process.