SEMANTIC GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING STUDENT COURSE "METHODICAL AND THEORETICAL PROBLEMS OF DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY"

Abstract

The subject "Methodical and Theoretical Problems of Depth Psychology" (MTPDP) is included in the curriculum for the training of practical psychologists. Experience shows that in the process of teaching it, the teacher faces a number of difficulties. Therefore, it is important to find those semantic guidelines that allow one to structure the educational material, to select world-view and professionally important points in it. The purpose of the study is to identify those guidelines that should be considered in the course of teaching the subject "Methodical and Theoretical Problems of Depth Psychology". Research objectives are the following: conducting theoretical analysis of the works in the field of depth psychology; generalization of the teaching experience of the MTPDP course; selection of the main semantic guidelines for teaching the MTPDP course and organization of the educational process based on them; determining the effectiveness of working with students. Research methods are the following: analysis of scientific literature; logical and structural modeling; pedagogical observation; analysis of products of students' activity; questionnaire for students; pedagogical experiment. In the course of the research, the following semantic guidelines were identified: definition of a methodological platform for teaching the MTPDP course based on the integration of basic educational paradigms; specification of starting positions to work on the content of the course (purpose, objectives, expected results); identification of the degree of familiarization of students with the material, which will be considered in the course of studying, in order to avoid repetition; definition of the normative content of the course, its structural and logical ordering; expansion of the problematic field of the discipline by optimizing students' independent work; inclusion of the comparison of events of the life path of prominent representatives of depth psychology with their theoretical views in the process of discussion. The organization of the educational process on the basis of the defined semantic guidelines allowed to involve students in the definition of actual problems of depth psychology, reflection of their own views, formation of critical attitude to individual psychological theories, concretization of individual implicit theories about the structure of the psyche and the factors of mental development, detection of manifestations of the unconscious in one's own life.