The "Inner Critic" as a Phenomenon of Person's Life

Student: Shelepanova Darya

Supervisor: Vladimir Shumskiy

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personality Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

This work is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of "Inner Critic". A theoretical and empirical investigation of this phenomenon was carried out. In the theoretical part, various psychological approaches were involved: transactional analysis, psychosynthesis, psychoanalysis, personological approach and existential analysis. In the empirical part A. Giorgi's the Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological method was used. As a result of the research, the "Inner Critic" was singled out as an independent phenomenon of the inner life of the personality and a structural model of the phenomenon was proposed.

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses