| Summary: | The study aims to identify the features of professional deformation in practicing psychologists at different stages of professional development and the way to avoid burnout with the help of psychological defenses. The author used the following research methods: questionnaire survey, polling, quantitative and qualitative data analysis; as well as the following statistical methods: descriptive statistics, the Kruskal-Wallis H-test, the Pearson correlation coefficient. For the mathematical processing of the data, the author used the Microsoft Excel and Statistica 17.0 software, Cattell's 16-factor personality questionnaire, the Giessen questionnaire of psychosomatic complaints, V.V. Boyko's method of diagnosing the dominant strategy of psychological defense in communication, and the Rosenzweig frustration test. Having defined the professional deformation of a psychologist as changes in their professional development, the author identified signs of professional deformation, such as emotional burnout, low empathy, average (closer to low) level of adaptation to the social environment, reactions with a fixation on self-defense, intropunitive reactions in case of obstacles, and the use of "Deflection" defense mechanism.
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