Hutsol S. The transformation of personal myth as means of individuality"s development.

Peculiarities of the transformation of personal myth as a result of the application of author"s psychotherapeutic method (Personal Myth Transformation - PMT) are exposed in the thesis. The dynamics of individuality"s self-actualiization according to the PMT method is elucidated. Promotion of the PMT method in the process of human"s individual development is proved. Psychotherapeutic peculiarities of the self-narrative texts (in their arbitrary and metaphorical forms) written by researched persons depending on their self-actualization level are found out and analyzed. The influence of the PMT method on structural and semantis organization as well as linguistic features of the researched persons" self-narrative texts is substantiated. Creation of self-narrative texts in its metaphorical forms (as a result of the PMTmethod"s application) is proved as the most efficient one from the personal myth"s productive transformation point of view. Key words: myth, personal myth, metaphor, self-narrative, structuraland semantis organization of text, semantis and linguistic features of the text, self-actualization level.