Metanoia

Metanoya ( other Greek: μετάνοια - “regret (about what happened), repentance” , Greek. Μετάνοια [ metaniya ] - “ change of mind ”, “ change of thought ”, “ rethinking ”) - a term denoting a change in the perception of facts or phenomena usually followed by regret ; repentance (especially in psychology and psychotherapy ). In the religious (especially early Christian ) tradition, repentance matters.

In analytical psychology, metanoia is similar to the term enantiodromia , borrowed by Carl Jung from Heraclitus ^[1] . Famous psychiatrists and representatives of the antipsychiatry movement Ronald Laing and David Cooper interpreted schizophrenic psychosis as a metanoia, which, according to them, is a process of a kind of rebirth, resurrection, and at the same time a test, and the possibility of a person finding his true essence ^[2] .