Analysis of Pet Owners Living in Turkey From the Integrative Psychotherapy Perspective

The relationship between humans and animals is quite old. The invasion of modern life is faced with the fact that immigration to the cities has increased due to the fact that human beings have the minimum basic needs. Negative conditions such as not having enough substructure, the economic reasons, the effects of the political atmosphere etc. Seem to be increasing in the quantity of people who appear unhappy and/or lonely as a result. Man is quickly taken to the idea that the causes of situations that make him feel bad, such as unhappiness and loveliness, are mostly external factors. This feeling does not seem to think that there may be identity, self structures or life experiences with the external factors. In this study, it is investigated that they try to use the methods of withdrawing self and the effects on the individuals. One of these methods is to own and interact with a pet. People seem to have acquired the pet for their function as an object of love, a partnership with their loneliness, and a means of balancing the emotions in which they live. In the study, the questionnaire consisting of 46 questions was prepared and made online on a social media Networks on the topic of pets through the google forms system. The study was conducted with 361 volunteer participants from 24 July to 09 August 2018. It was interpreted by taking the averages of the participants’ answers. In the study, it has been seen that pets one of the object of love for individuals, they are effective in realizing self activation, they have supportive feature in dealing with seperation anxiety, abondenment depression, loss and grief, allowing for the need for mirroring and olaso when the people are not feeling well, they spend most of their time with their pets. Considering the answers of people, living with pets makes people feel good. Cosidering that the animal-assisted treatment is newly recognised and used in our country, detailed studies to be carried out in this area may be suggested to have pet-feeding behavior-experience or contact in realization of self-activation with mental health support treatment idea