Zolotukhina-Abolina, E. V. Transformation of a Person’s Past as an Existential Problem

Abstract: The article is devoted to psychotherapeutic techniques of changing a person’s past as well as to certain existential problems arising when applying these techniques. The author compares post-modernistic and traditional approaches to the past and shows natural prerequisites for changing a person’s past which create the basis for conscious transformation of memory in a post-modernistic way. Having described the most ‘harsh’ techniques and related problems, the author suggests ‘softer’ techniques which allow to interpret the past experience for therapeutic purposes instead of changing the memory about the past.

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