THE RELATIONSHIP OF CHILDHOOD PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA WITH ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Сhildren's psychological trauma plays an important «starting» role along with many socio-psychological factors. The authors of this article have done research concerning the analysis of detectable psycho-traumatic events that have happened during childhood of patients who have alcohol addiction. These events affect peculiarities of the formation and dynamics of their abuse disorders. Together with study of these factors protective mechanisms of psyche and patients' ways of adaptation to psychological trauma have been examined. It is widely thought that dissociation is the main mechanism by which the individual copes with a psychological trauma. To the authors' mind with the help of this mechanism a person begins to perceive what is happening with him as if it is not happening with him, but with someone else. This helps to protect the patient from excessive and unbearable emotions. The aim of the research is to study the impact of stressful events in childhood of individuals who suffer from alcohol addiction on the formation and development of drug pathology. 90 patients have been used as a control group. These people have been treated for alcohol addiction in the narcological hospital. According to the research the great expressiveness of dissociative processes predominates among the patients with alcohol addiction (11,021,54 against 4,30,74 in the control group). The statistical analysis shows that that patients with high levels of dissociative processes are more likely to have psycho-traumatic events in childhood. The refore, it is perspective to continue the study of influence of psycho-traumatic events in the childhood of alcoholic addiction people on the development of their disease. Patients with high levels of alcohol dissociative processes tend to have more malignant type of the disease. Moreover, it provides significant theoretical material for the formation of effective deep-dynamic approaches to the therapy of the main narcological disease.