Therapeutic Discourse of Psychologists in the Context of Crisis: Normalization of Non-Action

This study examines therapeutic discourse, which is presented in the texts of psychologists context crisis conditions associated with Russian and world news event agenda period end February — April 2022. The purpose was to reveal describe content identify methods (strategies) normalize it refers resorting, whether opposite happen when crucial events taking place are sharpened as a problem. analysis material blogs (Russian—language posted on social networks for beginning March) interviews practicing (11 interviews, collected March— 2022). Critical discourse allowed specifics, characteristic vocabulary ideological guidelines conditions, detect its interdiscursivity. A separate emphasis placed description relation socio-political, ethical-moral other neighboring discourses, following strategies normalization situation inherent were identified “sealing”, “re-description”, “attention switching”, discursive strategy problematization also outlined. In addition, recommendations (the so-called “techniques”) considered how interpreted occurring after 24, 2022 from point view their normalization.