From the author: Dear readers. The proposed article “Generative psychotherapy” is intended for a professional audience of psychologists, doctors, and psychotherapists. The article contains material that, in my opinion, can make significant adjustments to the understanding of the patterns and mechanisms of the psychotherapeutic process and the nature of psychotherapy in general. The article presents ideas and provisions that are the result of my many years of work as a theoretical psychologist studying the capabilities of a person as an individual and as a subject of his own development. The material for theoretical analysis and corresponding generalizations is, first of all, my own psychotherapeutic practice, as well as the practice of my colleagues working in the paradigm of “new wave psychotherapy” and “humanistic psychology”. The main goal of such work is the development of the well-known “generative approach” to solving psychological problems into a coherent system of psychological knowledge and practice, which I designate as “generative psychology and psychotherapy.” Sincerely, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, psychotherapist of the Unified Register of Professional Psychotherapists in Europe, Pyotr Silenok. “Generative psychotherapy” is a holistic paradigm reflecting humanistic (K. Rogers, A. Maslow), cognitive-informational (primarily based on reflex principles and mechanisms - I. Sechenov, I. Pavlov, P. Anokhin, N. Bernstein, J. Miller, E. Galanter, K. Pribram) as well as psycholinguistic (Chomsky) and psychoecological (G. Bateson) approaches to understanding the nature of human experience. The essence of this paradigm is to understand the unity of the processes of personality development (self-realization and self-actualization) and generativity. Generativity (translated as “to generate something new”) means the process of generating new meanings, psychological structures and behavioral forms during human development that meet the requirements of adaptation at a new personal level. The emergence of neurolinguistic programming in the seventies of the last century (J. Grinder, R. Bandler) opened up the possibility of reliable description and modeling of aspects of his experience that are important for understanding human nature. These aspects of experience turned out to be meta structures (metaprograms, beliefs, values, features of personal identity and awareness of one’s own mission), basic microstrategies and their submodal characteristics. A way of working with the structural features of human experience was proposed. Psychologists and psychotherapists of different directions began to be guided by the principle: “in order to change what does not suit us, it is enough to change its structure.” The structural approach in psychology and psychotherapy has become very heuristic and productive. The very possibility of reproducing the structure of problematic or, conversely, resource experience through modeling has opened up the possibility of real understanding of the difficulties of patients and clients and managing changes towards the desired state. Psychotherapy and psychological counseling acquires the status of a science and practice of managing the desired changes in patients and clients. The essence of psychotherapy is managing appropriate changes in the client’s problem space. This essence is for all modalities and each of the diverse methods of psychotherapy. The essence of psychotherapy precisely expresses the general features characteristic of any method of psychotherapy, any of its modalities. They should be presented in the form of meta-structures - peculiar meta-mental new formations that appear in the client as a result of psychotherapy. These meta-mental new formations, reflecting the universal content of each method, should be sought, in my opinion, in the features of managing expedient changes in the client’s (patient’s) problem space. In light of this approach, some i's are dotted. It turns out that since the essence of any psychotherapeutic method is invariant - achieving the desired changes, then its specific modal characteristicsrepresent only a specific path or way of managing change and achieving the desired changes. General natural, basic and thus essential features that explain the integrative, centripetal tendencies of psychotherapy should be sought in the theory and practice of managing change and managing personal development. The essence of such (developmental) management is to organize the client’s activity to obtain new mental formations. The generation of something new is a process of generativity. Psychotherapy is actually a generative process, that is, the process of generating something new - new mental formations in the personality structure of the patient or client. Thanks to these new formations, the client is capable of successfully adapting to the requirements of test situations, and, thereby, to a high quality of life in a previously problematic context. The emergence of these new mental formations in the client as a result of psychotherapy gives him a new status as a full-fledged subject of his own life and thereby provides him with an invaluable opportunity to constructively resolve difficulties. He turns out to be able to accept the challenge that life throws at him and creatively pass the test of a problematic situation. This means reaching a higher level of personal maturity and quality of life. Generative psychotherapy is a branch of scientific and psychological knowledge and practice, based on the study and use of patterns and methods of developing generative thinking in clients in the psychotherapeutic process. Since the client is fixed on difficulties, he really needs generative thinking, which removes this fixation and takes him to a higher level of personal development and a better standard of living. The paradox is that the client is least capable of such thinking. And the psychotherapist, at the stage of interaction with the client, practically takes over the function of generative thinking that is blocked in the client. The phenomenon of generative thinking lies in the fundamental orientation of the subject towards new and constructive views, decisions and actions. Only the energy of fundamental novelty and unconditional usefulness of the desired states can generate a sense of perspective and inspire the client to difficult, “pioneer”, ascetic work on himself. At the same time, the client develops new physiological structures that are capable of supporting emerging meta-psychic neoplasms (Sandomirsky M.E. 2005). The essence of the psychotherapist’s behavior, which actualizes the client’s generative thinking potential, is to model the client’s desired state and to jointly explore, during a psychotherapeutic session, the possibilities of using this state in real conditions. Psychotherapy as a generative process actually turns out to be a form of modeling and introducing a model of the desired state into the initial and previously problematic context for the client. Generative psychotherapy is based on the processes of expanding the client’s understanding, perception and behavior in test situations for him. The patterns and mechanisms of such expansion constitute the subject of generative psychotherapy as a branch of scientific and psychological knowledge and practice. Analysis of the possibilities of expanding the client’s cognitive-perceptual and behavioral characteristics, creation of a generative model of the desired state and its implementation in a real life context constitute the essence of the methodological side of generative psychotherapy. The method of work of a psychotherapist in the paradigm of generative psychotherapy is determined by his fundamental focus on the result, on the model of the client’s desired state. The semantic function of the symptoms of the current problem state, which forms the basis for understanding the goal and goal setting, is the main support for building tactics for working with the client. The content of the work of a generative psychotherapist is expressed in obtaining information about the client’s goal, which is immanently present in his current state, as well as in updating what is necessary to achieve the goal.