PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION IN RECOGNIZING EMOTIONS IN THE FACE IN OLD AGE

The article shows that changes in the ability to recognize emotions in the face are a neurocognitive marker not only of a number of mental and neurological disorders, but can also occur in normal aging. First introduced the integrative model of depression P. Lucena and P. Fonagy that unlike earlier theories showing that depression in the elderly is the result of interacting disturbances in response to stressful events. The forms of cognitive bias in recognition of emotions in the face at a later age are presented. On the basis of empirical research, it is shown that in the elderly and senile age there are symptoms of emotionally-specific deficiency. When recognizing the expression of a calm face in the elderly and senile age, there is an attribution of emotions to a neutral face (sadness, anger), which indicates the presence of negative cognitive bias or projective identification. These processes, on the one hand, are an indicator of psychological distress, as well as a stable personality trait that performs the function of grouping and preparing for negative events. Systematized therapeutic tactics to minimize the deficit of emotion recognition in the elderly.