“Kafka’s trap” and other communications manipulations within and outside psychopathology. The case of Rimma M.

sing a clinical case as an example, the article analyzes various communication manipulations used by the patient. She was found to have speech and behavioral stereotypes in the form of the phenomenon of “double bind” and “Kafka’s trap” (provocative formulation of questions), fear of not understanding what is happening, fear of being misinterpreted, a tendency to “get stuck” and repeatedly repeat asked questions and clarifications (carrillism), “speech delays”, manifested by long pauses after asking questions and pronouncing the last spoken phrases of the interlocutor, the desire to “speak to the end” and the insistence on listening to her (communicative importunity). All of the above phenomena were accompanied by a critical attitude towards them, and the patient corrected her speech behavior with persistent instructions from the outside. The patient’s communicative manipulations were regarded not as psychopathological symptoms, but as psychological phenomena within the framework of mixed personality disorder, which allowed her to maintain the integrity of her self-concept and justify the adequacy and appropriateness of her behavior.