TRANSITIONAL PSYCHOPATOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHE DISORDERS AS A PANDEMIC AND POST-PANDEMIC PHENOMENON
The article presents and consistently analyzes the results of a scientific study carried out on a sample of dental patients who applied for rehabilitation treatment during different periods of the novel coronavirus infection pandemic. In addition to the usual clinical conversation, the examined patients were offered a number of standard psychodiagnostic techniques (anxiety test; PSM-25 test; PES-level determination test), as well as a list of questions specially formulated for the purposes of the study. On the basis of further analysis of the obtained experimental material and its primary empirical generalization, it was possible to isolate, describe and concretize the personality deviations of the mental state of those seeking treatment by the patient, initiated by radical restrictions of their personal and social space, and stabilized under conditions of extremely prolonged (by conventional social standards) stress. These deviations affected, firstly, the possibility of social interaction and positioning of individuals (including in relation to treatment for the provision of specialized dental care), and, secondly, they found a clearly pronounced reactive (as a response to prolonged stress), transient nature. In conclusion, the study identified further areas of theoretical understanding of the problems arising in connection with the course of the pandemic, associated with negative changes in the psychological plan, and also proposed a number of clinical recommendations of a practical nature, the implementation of which is to overcome the pathological deformations of the personal psyche and the speedy return of members affected by the pandemic society to an active and fulfilling life.