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- Presenter: Aleksandr A. Kronik, PhD, ScD,
- author of the LifeLook concept
- used currently in Russia & USA
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- Autobiographic self-analysis
- Biographic counseling
- Time-oriented psychotherapy
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- Elements in LifeLook:
- Five-year periods
- Events
- Dates
- Spheres
- Emotions
- Goals
- Minutes
- Causes
- Meanings
- LifeMap
- Personality portrait
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- Psychological age, PA = R x L
- R = subjective life realization, %
- L = subjective longevity, years
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- Any changes in your inner or outer world
- In any succession as they cross your mind
- Minimum of 15, maximum of 21 events
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- Year, season or month, date, if possible
- Anticipate date of a future event
- The beginning, the end, or the culmination
- Check chronological order
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- Experience with nature
- Social & political life
- Work & business life
- Family life
- Inner life
- Health
- Leisure
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- Color associations with events
- Your color preferences
- Emotional tone of an event
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- A goal of the event is any later event, which you wish (wished) to
achieve or to avoid by undertaking this particular event.
- Scale for goal analysis:
- possibly/probably/definitely to achieve…
- independent of…
- possibly/probably/definitely to avoid…
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- Close your eyes and rest…
- Open… after one minute has passed
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- Causes may be any earlier events, because of, or despite which, this
particular event occurs.
- Scale for causal analysis:
- possibly/probably/definitely
because of…
- independent of …
- possibly/probably/definitely in spite of…
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- Importance (I) = subjective rank of event
- Significance (S) = number of connections
- Sense of reality (W) = correlation of I & S
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- Vertices = events
- Vertical line = significance
- Horizontal line = age
- Blue lines of recollections = past
- Red lines of feelings = present
- Green lines of expectations = future
- A LifeMap of a Chernobyl adolescent* à
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- Subjective life realization and psychological age
- Strategic thinking
- Life difficulties
- Sense of reality
- Emotional sensitivity
- Appreciation of your life
- Desire and ability to plan. Confidence
- Human type. Lifestyle
- Past and future trends
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- Includes:
- Personality indices
- Life Event indices
- LifeMap in different life spheres
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- Changes after two sessions:
- Index of anxiety (in color preferences)
- • 4 à 2
- Index of depression (in color associations)
- • 5 à 0
- Index of life appreciation (viewing events in favorable colors)
- • -.71 à +.50
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- Significant changes after ten sessions:
- Increased expected longevity: 67.5 à 72.1 years
- Feelings of enhanced life productivity in 26-30 years
- Expectations of enhanced life productivity in 50-70 years
- Follow-up six months later:
- Increased expected longevity: 67.5 à 72.1 years
- Feelings of enhanced life productivity in 26-30 years
- Expectations of enhanced life productivity in 60-70 years
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- How to correct aberrations in LifeMap:
- Life has no limits
- Correcting the life schedule
- Finding positive consequences of the traumatic event
- Meetings with “miracles”
- Awareness of “super” significant events
- “Lifecraft”: ten weekly group sessions
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- Assessment & Time-Oriented Psychotherapy for:
- Adjustment disorder (10)
- Bipolar disorder (6)
- Major depressive disorder (6)
- Dystomic disorder (5)
- Generalized anxiety disorder (3)
- Personality disorder (3)
- Alcohol abuse (2)
- Pain disorder (2)
- Panic disorder (2)
- Major depressive episode, sexual offense, acute stress, relational
problem, cyclothymic disorder, pathological gambling, posttraumatic
stress disorder, mood disorder due to medical conditions, pedophilia.
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- Significant changes in revised causograms during the course of
psychotherapy*:
- 1 revision: Sense of reality, 42 à 58
- 3 revisions: Motivational power of present, 34 à 42
- 4 revisions: Strategic thinking in present, 4 à 8
- 5 revisions: Goal-directedness in present, 28 à 38
- 7 revisions: Rationality in present, 71 à 78
- 9 revisions: Rigidity in view for past, 87 à 80
- 11 revisions: Appreciation of the past, 64 à 79
- Seven steps to rebuild a bridge
between past and future:
- • Strengthen sense of reality
(from smart to wise)
- • Change temporal mode (from
past-focused to present-focused)
- • Shift strategic thinking (from
short-term to long-term vision)
- • Renew desire to plan (from
retire to restart)
- • Grow rationally (from Homo
sapiens to Homo sapiens sapiens)
- • Soften view on past (from rigid
to flexible)
- • Appreciate the past (from
stressors to lessons)
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- A husband or wife
- Children
- Friends
- Parents
- Partners
- Famous people
- Clients…
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- Special thanks to
- Gideon Frieder, D.Sc.
- H.L.P.Resnik, MD
- Sallyann Amdur Sack, PhD
- Deborah C. Skolnik, MLS
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