Goncharov, Maksim (2024). Actual Capabilities In Positive Psychotherapy.: What Personality Consists Of. Wiesbaden: WAPP Press, 2024. 616 p. — ISBN 978-3-910225-33-6 (e-book)

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About the book:

There are many ways to describe personality in psychology and psychotherapy. However, Nossrat Peseschkian, the founder of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (1977), did it in a very original way. Based on extensive transcultural research, he formulated a list of so-called actual capabilities — cultural or social values that a person relies on in everyday life. Every person on the planet has actual capabilities, but their significance and development are different for each person. This is what makes up a person’s personality. This book describes these actual capabilities in detail and explains how they are developed, present in everyday life, involved in our conflicts and problems, and so on. Understanding actual capabilities allows us to look at ourselves, our relationships with others, conflicts and contradictions in a new way. This, in turn, makes it possible to consciously make the necessary adjustments in one’s life and make it easier. In other words, it allows you to become a psychotherapist for yourself and your environment.

About author:

Maksim Goncharov

Lecturer, speaker and presenter of educational and training programmes in Russia, USA, Australia, Germany, China, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkey, Romania, Poland, Albania, Ethiopia, Mongolia.
He is the author of the concept and book ‘Emotional safety atmosphere in the practice of a psychotherapist’, the author of many scientific articles on conflicts, psychotherapeutic relationships and countertransference.
Graduated from the Far Eastern State Medical University in 1996. He received fundamental training in psychotherapy in Russia and the International Academy of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (IAPP) (Germany). Already in 2000 he became an international trainer in positive psychotherapy. In 2002 he was awarded the European Certificate in Psychotherapy and was included in the Unified Register of Professional Psychotherapists of Europe.
In 2003, he defended his PhD thesis in psychotherapy in St. Petersburg. In 2007 Maksim Goncharov received an international award from the World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (WAPP) for innovation in psychotherapy. In 2008 he was awarded the World Certificate in Psychotherapy (WCP).

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