PAVA METHOD 2025 – A SYSTEM OF MEANS FOR FACILITATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ABILITY FOR INNER DIALOGUE WITH THE BODILY SELF: STRUCTURE AND EFFECTIVENESS
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https://doi.org/10.34142/23129387.2026.74.15Keywords:
salutogenic approach, phenomenology of the bodily self, bodily locus of control, self-regulation of the bodily self, psychological well-being,, bodily metaphor, verbalization of the bodily, psychocorrective method.Abstract
The article provides a theoretical substantiation and empirical verification of the updated version of the PAVA‑2025 method as an integrated system of tools designed to foster the development of the ability for inner dialogue with the bodily self within the framework of the salutogenic and cultural‑historical approaches. The aim of the study is to refine the structural and functional organization of the PAVA‑2025 method and to assess its effectiveness in terms of bodily locus of control internality and the intensity of subjective bodily complaints. PAVA‑2025 is conceptualized as a four‑stage methodological system (“personification”, “association”, “visualization”, “analogization”), each stage performing a specific function in the trajectory of transition from an objectifying, symptom‑centered attitude toward the body to a dialogical, subject‑to‑subject format of psychosomatic partnership.
In a sample of 75 respondents with a high intensity of subjective bodily complaints, a statistically significant increase in bodily locus of control internality and a concurrent decrease in complaint intensity were demonstrated, which confirms the effectiveness of the method as a psychocorrective tool.
The findings are interpreted in line with A. Antonovsky’s salutogenic model and contemporary conceptions of the phenomenology of the bodily self, indicating that strengthening the sense of manageability of bodily functioning and cultivating an inner dialogue with the bodily self are associated with reduced bodily anxiety, a decrease in subjective distress, and an enhancement of psychological well‑being.
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