TECHNOLOGIES OF REINTERPRETATIVE INFLUENCE ON THE MENTAL MODEL IN THE OLD AGE

The article deals with technologies used for reinterpretative (transformational) influence on the mental model in the old age. Successful resolving of the old age crisis implies personal self-development to the effect of deeper understanding of the world, wisdom, comprehension of the past and of experiences, and transformation of the individual's mental model. The psychological precondition for this process is its relation with intellectual shifts and enrichment of intelligence, with reflection and interpretative (narrative) potential of the subject, and with his/her readiness for self-development. To reinterpretate the mental model of the world, we propose such efficient technologies as the structured autonarrative (“Life book”) combined with accompanying methods and the method of externalization of the old age problem with adequate metaphors. Defined were the criterial parameters of the presence of reinterpretative tendencies in the mental model obtained by affecting the structured autonarrative.