CREATIVITY OF A PSYCHOTHERAPIST What is the difference between a psychotherapist and a psychologist? There are different opinions on this matter. Working in a city somatic clinic, I understood the difference between a psychologist and a psychotherapist in this way: a psychologist provides emotional support here and now, provides a replacement of mental attitudes and ways of acting, teaches new ways of acting through role playing, etc. The psychotherapist always works with feelings, replacing negative feelings with positive ones, thereby changing attitudes at the level of thinking (head) and feelings at the level of the body, leading the body as a whole to general physiological (instinctive biological) safety. What is the difference? A psychologist has the right to work with feelings. The psychotherapist is obliged to replace negative feelings with positive ones, not denying the negative feelings in himself, but giving himself the right to use these negative feelings only for his own benefit (and also giving himself the right to use positive feelings in stressful situations, different depending on the specific case and the client’s problem) . A psychologist can, but is not obligated to, work with the client’s pathology and pre-pathology; he works mainly with mentally healthy people. A psychotherapist (that is, a psychologist who has improved his qualifications) is obliged to help patients with mental disorders and disorders: depression, PTSD, epilepsy, often together with psychiatrists who use pharmacology and other means. What is the difference in the influence on the patient in the case of a psychologist working with attitudes and a psychotherapist working with feelings? The main difference is that setting replacement is applied and used by the client, providing undeniable assistance to the client in a standard, familiar situation without much stress. Replacing feelings gives support to the client specifically not in the standard situation of extreme distress. Therefore, a psychotherapist, like a psychologist, is obliged to develop and study through training, improving their skills and introducing the latest (usually Western) technologies. These are EMDR techniques, Hellinger arrangements, metaphorical cards, RPT, work with hidden benefits, etc. Thus, in my practical work I came to the main conclusion that: 1) psychological support at the cognitive level is effective in standard familiar situations when emotions are controlled ,2) in order to equip the client for a stressful situation (non-standard), with uncontrolled emotions, it is necessary to provide support at the bodily level, by replacing negative feelings with positive ones and connecting to the unconscious sphere of safety on an instinctive automatic (reflex) level, independent of the limitations of the mental sphere, 3) the mental sphere, in turn, is limited, on the one hand, by parental attitudes, and on the other, by social norms. For this reason, if feelings are not replaced, the client “goes in circles” and is unable to help himself in stress, since he cannot use the intuitive area of ​​his subconscious, because negative feelings block new ways of action, 4) and most importantly! Without discovering the hidden secondary benefit, and therefore without removing it, even replacing feelings will only lead to temporary relief, since the hidden benefit will return the patient to the usual ways of acting. Medical psychologist Silaeva Tatyana Nikolaevna