Смысловые аспекты телесного опыта хронического соматического заболевания

The article presents the results of studying inner body experience in people with chronic somatic diseases, and the correlation between body experience and semantic sphere of personality based on models of health and chronic somatic disease. Body experience of a chronic somatic disease correlates with value-semantic variations that manifests in dominant negative evaluation of the past, present and future, de-emphasis of life goal-setting. The presence of morbid specific symptoms accompanied with physical sensations influences the integration of a new body experience into self-concept creating a specific perception of the body. The factors of person's maladaptive reactions on a disease such as reflexivity, locus of control are marked out. Maladaptive correlation between body experience and semantic component of personality is conditioned by blocking reflexive processes and increaseing externalization of control locus level.