ある運動選手の生育史の中で生起した危機様態の分析

抄録

The process of athlete's ego identity formation as viewed from the mutuality involved in solving a crisis has been discussed in the made by the present investigator and his colleagues previous reports. The present investigation is essentially an attempt to confirm this idea through a psychotherapeutic case. Based on the survey of the theoretical background concerning psychological reasons of crisis mode which contributes to character transformation, this study was conducted from a case study of psychotherapy for a college male student athlete who became apathetic towards his academic studies.The problems of this case in relation with his personality were as follows; sexual identity, lack of positiveness, ego identity formation, and defensive interpersonal relations. Crises occuring in his life history were examined in order to clarify the influence of the mutuality in crisis mode on his character formation. He had experienced some crises in his "relationship with his father", "relationship with his coaches", "determining his course of direction after graduation from junior high and high school", and "his attitude towards academic studies". There were commonly low level of development of mutuality in solving these crises except in the area of his attitude towards academic studies, which is the main reason (crisis) he came for psychotherapy. The lack of mutuality in the crisis mode was thought to be one contributing factor in the formation of the problems in this case with his personality. He actively tried to solve this crisis, which in the enhanced self-examination of himself. Through this process of psychotherapy, he was able to cope with this crisis with the mutuality he had never experienced before. Thus, he gradually began to develop into a normal functioning person. It can possibly be concluded that one reason character change was brought about was the improvement of mutality in the crisis mode.