Psikolojik Danışma Sürecinde: “Kendini Kabul” Ve “Savunucu Davraniş” Kavramlarinin Felsefi Ve, Psikolojik Boyutlari
The Philosophical and Psychological Aspects of Self-Acceptance and Defensive Behaviors

Summary/Abstract: This study is a literature review on the philosophical and psychological aspects of self-acceptance and defensive behaviors, which are of great importance in psychological health problems. The article also focusing on the two concepts’ philosophical origins and the implications of the psychological behavior summarizes the process of validity and reliability in the researches on self-concept and defensive behavior. The study examining in particular the defensive behavior in relation to the concept of alienation which is a part of the philosophy of existentialism, attempts to solve the problems created by defensive behavior among individuals. In addition, defensive behavior and the elements preventing the interpersonal communication will be investigated. The concepts of facing the reality and accepting the reality as the main parts of self-acceptance have been among the topics that existentialist philosophy, psychoanalysis, and humanistic psychology try to study. These theories giving some examples about some articles of the questionnaires about facing the reality and self-accepting and defensive behavioral as their opposite concept summarizes studies on the validity and reliability. Thus, the study depicting the individual as “accepting the self as the reality”, focuses on the relationship of “self-actualization stated by humanistic psychology and “existence precedes essence” pointed by the existential philosophy and the theory of psychology as the basic indicators of psychological health.

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