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Crisis as Challenge and Task

Mihaly Szentmartoni orcid.org/0009-0008-2947-0053 ; Filozofski fakultet Družbe Isusove u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Personal growth involves many crises. In fact, there are two kinds of crises: situational crisis, caused by unexpected life events, and developmental crisis, which usually follows transitional periods of life. The first part of the article describes the psychodynamism of a crisis in general. Crisis is not a momentary event, but rather a process. It starts with an increasing anxiety and develops into a feeling of inability to resolve problems by means of usual coping mechanisms. But at the same time the unbearable anxiety forces the individual to mobilize his psychic resources in order to find new, creative-solutions. In the second part of the article the developmental crisis of the adult age is discussed with the scope to find its meaning for personal growth. It is viewed as a „crisis of limits" and is recognized as a turning point in adult life. The person is called to turn from outer—oriented goals toward more personal goals in the sense of a deeper spiritual
life.

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Hrčak ID:

53899

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/53899

Publication date:

20.8.1986.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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