Abstract:

The article presents two opposite States: the decline of life to the extent that it is impossible to continue it, including the phenomenon of "school shooter" and the feeling of happiness and prosperity. The description of these categories and statistical data are presented. The specific recommendations of the "search" for happiness and prosperity are proposed. The leading principles of psychotherapy should be: the transformation of personal meanings, the wealth of individual and personal resources; humanistic methods of psychotherapy, forerunners of which Were L. Tolstoy, I. Turgenev and other writers of Russia

Keywords: crisis of life, mental disorders, character accentuation, the phenomenon of "school shooter", happiness, prosperity, methods of psychotherapy