Abstract

1%-2.5% of the world population suffer from speech disorders in the form of stuttering (logoneurosis). In most cases stuttering leads to stable negative personality changes, which creates a severe medical, psychological, and social problem. In the 60-ies of the ХХ century a psychologist Y.B. Nekrasova developed a technique of group logopsychotherapy for stuttering adolescents and adults, on the basis of emotional-stress therapy of K.M. Dubrovsky, who used the internal reserves of the human psyche. On the basis of the method of group logopsychotherapy, since the late 1980s, the system of family group logopsychotherapy of Yu.B. Nekrasova-N.L. Karpova began to be built. At a new level, traditional and non–traditional methods and techniques of sociorehabilitation of logoneurosis developed - bibliotherapy, formation of motivational involvement in the therapeutic and educational process, personal development in communication, etc. Psychological mechanisms of increasing motivation in speech therapy have been identified.