TY - JOUR AU - Lushyn, Pavel PY - 2021/04/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - At the Forefront of the Buffer: the Convergence of Traditional and Positive Psychology JF - Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy JA - PCP VL - 0 IS - 14 SE - THEORET. AND METHODOLOG. PROBL. OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ADVICE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY DO - 10.26565/2410-1249-2020-14-02 UR - https://periodicals.karazin.ua/psychotherapy/article/view/17051 SP - 28-34 AB - The paper provides a holistic or rather a holographic representation of the evolution of a segment of psychological disciplines in the period of its critical self-organization within a so called VUCA-world (volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous). The basic contradiction between Traditional and Positive Psychology are interpreted in terms of a source of development of a novel sphere of psychological research and practice called by the author Buffer or Transition Psychology. Its content is viewed through dialectical, psycho-immunal and clinical perspective. An original non-deficiency principal is defined and illustrated by a case of a severely traumatized woman: within one session she positively resolutes into a posttraumatic growth condition. The author raises challenging issues which open up promising discussions and practical implications into psychological and social research. ER -