The Name of Change. Psychotherapeutic Stories about How to Stay True to Yourself When Everything Changes

«The Name of Change. Psychotherapeutic Stories about How to Stay True to Yourself When Everything Changes» — a collection of psychotherapeutic stories about people experiencing an internal crisis, losing familiar supports, and searching for themselves during times of change. The focus is on burnout, loss of meaning, betrayal, feelings of emptiness, and the inability to choose a further path. Instead of ready-made schemes, real-life situations are gathered here, through which it is easier to see what happens to a person at the breaking point between their past life and an unknown future.

This is a collection of stories about people whose usual life has stopped working. The focus is not on external events themselves, but on how a person experiences a crisis, faces internal conflicts, and tries to understand anew who they are now. The book relates to popular psychology and psychotherapy, focusing on personal crisis, loss, burnout, and the search for identity. Through the fates of the characters, the author explains how unprocessed pain can manifest in everyday life, why stability sometimes turns into a trap, and why changes are often accompanied by confusion.

The main idea of the book — a crisis is not limited to the breakdown of the usual order. It can become a moment when previous answers no longer work, and new ones have not yet been found. Olesya Vasilieva draws attention to experiences that usually remain without clear words: guilt, grief, inner emptiness, loss of self, fatigue, which may hide not only overload but also a loss of meaning. Instead of quick recipes, the author suggests looking closely at feelings, noticing hidden reasons for habitual reactions, and being more attentive to how a person experiences changes.