Discursive Influence in the Professional Speech Activity of an Individual Psychologist

Abstract. The study is focused on such psycholinguistic issues as sphere of psychological activity that is predominantly of discursive nature and is based on the use of speech influence methods, design of discourses as implementation of applied psychologist’s needs in his/her professional speech activity. Another focus is on discursive impact related to various aspects of its organization and effects, specific types of discourses in certain operating conditions of the therapist and counselor. The discourse can change consciousness and behavior of individual h intervention in mental regulators of life, existence and interaction with others in the social space. The discourse is regarded as a concept created by a psychologist that states social relations, image of “I” and “Others”, forms the social identity, perceptions, judgments, instructions, converts not adaptive and inappropriate patterns of behavior, rigid stereotypes of human consciousness to adaptive and creative ones radically changing the old and forming the new meanings. The author gives examples of different types of discourses, in particular, discourse explanation, imperfect discourse, transfer discourse, genetic interpretation discourse, reinterpretation discourse, I-discourse, restart discourse, reidentification discourse, discourse of self-expression of feelings here and now