Editor-in-Chief's column
Reference:
Gurevich, P. S.
Wilhelm Reich’s Three-Element Personality Model
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1137-1141.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65784
Abstract:
Much is written about psychoanalytical heritage of Wilhelm Reich. His views on unconsciousness have been
analyzed and his concepts of body psychotherapy and body psychoanalysis have been underlined. Researchers have
also pointed out Reich’s contribution to the character analysis. Reich saw a great health potential in spontaneous
manifestations of psyche. However, Pavel Gurevich believes that the social meaning of Reich’s teaching has not been
discovered yet. In the years when Reich started to become famous, classical psychoanalysis already began to give
place to Neo Freudianism. Karen Horney and Erich Fromm focused on the role of social factors in diagnostics and
treatment of patients. They criticized Freudianism for ignoring the role of social and cultural factors in personality
development. In response, adherents of classical psychoanalysis blamed Neo Freudians for underestimating the role
of intrapsychic and biological factors in individual development. Wilhelm Reich managed to stay uninvolved in those
discussions. However , he created an interesting three-element personality model. In his research Pavel Gurevich applies
methods of social psychology allowing to define the role of the social environment in diagnosing symptoms of
neurosis. At the same time, the author of the article has also use the methods of historical analysis of the problem.
In particular, Reich’s teaching is viewed in terms of that period in the psychoanalysis development when classical
psychoanalysis was gradually giving place to Neo Freudianism. The novelty of the research is in the analysis of the
three-element personality model offered by Reich. This model demonstrates that Reich gave the priority to the social
and cultural topics. Being an orthodox adherent of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich nevertheless approached to
understanding the doubtless significance of politics and culture in the personality development. According to Pavel
Gurevich, in this respect Wilhelm Reich even preceded Karen Horney and Erich Fromm although Reich did not manage
that deep social and cultural analysis that Neo Freudianism offered. Wilhelm Reich changed the concept of personality
structure offered by Freud. In fact, Freud created the model of psyche without giving focusing on the cultural factor.
Freud’s general provisions about the role of super ego, parental prohibitions and moral self-condemnation were later
developed in Wilhelm Reich’s model.
Keywords:
psychology, psychoanalysis, Neo-Freudianism, personality, personality model, unconsciousness, human health, reality, sexuality, sociality.
Societal passions
Reference:
Persiyantseva, S. V., Akimova, M. K., Ivanova, I. I.
Civil Practices as a Display of Civil Identity of Modern Youth
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1142-1152.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65785
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the relation between the level of civil identity and psychological component of social
capital. Social capital is a term used to describe social intercourse and institutionalized relations based on mutual recognition.
The basis of social capital is the basic positive characteristics of interaction between people and different social
groups including trust, honesty, cohesion and solidarity. Distrust and dishonesty as well as the absence of a natural
feeling of solidarity in human relations hinder cooperation and destroy he entire system of human and social relations.
Psychological characteristics of social capital play an important role in the development of civil identity that is realized
through special civil practices based on free choice, personal responsibility and their inclusion in the structure of social
relations in a civil society. The hypothesis of the present research is that there is a linear relation between psychological
components of social capital and the level of civil identity. According to the authors, this relation demonstrates that
adoption of civil society attitudes creates grounds for the individual intensity of social capital. To diagnose characteristics
of the civil identity, the authors have used the projective technique ‘Civil Identity’ offered by M. Akimova and E.
Gorbachev. The stimulus material included 27 pictures of everyday situations. Interpretation of these situations allowed
to say whether a person accepts or rejects values of civil society. To evaluate social capital, the authors have used the
three questionnaires for trust-based relations, legitimization of dishonesty and solidarity. Social capital can be viewed as
a consequence of civil identity of individuals while identity should be used as a factor of consolidation of social ties and
regulation of individual’s behavior and social standards, attitudes and values adopted by the individual. This is explained
by the fact that one’s identification with a social group does not only mean to be a member of the group, but also to accept the main attitudes and values of the social group as well as to understand whether these attitudes and values
are acceptable for that individual. The comparative analysis of the two group of students (aged 19 – 22), from Moscow
(n-27) and Orekhovo-Zuevo (n=50) has revealed that students from a Moscow University have higher results according
to all methods compared to the students from Orekhovo-Zuevo. At the same time, while high results in civil identity,
trust-based relations and solidarity tests create a positive image of Moscow students, high points received in the legitimization
of dishonesty test mean that Moscow students more often allow themselves to be dishonest in their relations
with the others (i.e. ‘legitimize’ dishonesty). However, the authors of the present article do not focus on the analysis and
interpretation of these data because the main purpose of the present article is to prove the relation between the level of
civil identity and psychological aspects of social capital. To statistically process the obtained data, the authors have used
the Spearmen’s correlation analysis. The research has determined a statistically significant positive relation between the
level of civil identity and trust and solidarity in both groups of students and a statistically significant negative relation
between the level of civil identity and legitimization of dishonesty in case of Moscow students. This means that the more
students identity themselves as members of the civil society, the more they trust one another, they more solidarity they
have and the less acceptable they find dishonesty towards other members of the civil society.
Keywords:
civil identity, civil practices, civil society, civil rights, social capital, components of social capital, trust-based relations, legitimization, solidarity, cohesion.
Philosophy and psychology
Reference:
Konson, G. R.
Dorian Gray as an Intellectual Murder in Oscar Wilde’s Novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1153-1161.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65786
Abstract:
The subject under research is the process of degradation of Dorian Gray from an angel-like person to a devillike
criminal. According to the author, this process is related to transcendence as an indicator of moral principles of
the main hero. When these moral principles are destroyed, transcendence in Dorian Gray’s mind takes a concrete
shape and expresses a catastrophic expectation of moral punishment. In this regard, the author of the article focuses
on Dorian’s transformation into a devil. Such a metamorphosis is possible due to a typical European phenomenon of
doppelganger that is based on the binary archetype. In his research Konson has used the integrated approach which
includes ethic-philosophic, psychological, literary and musicological analysis. The scientific novelty of the research
is in creation of a new research framework when Dorian Gray is interpreted as a source of the binary archetype of
human-devil when human is turning into a monster and appears to be even a greater threat than his doppelganger
(twin) and his pan estheticism is turning into esthetics of cruelty. Moreover, the novelty of the article is also shown in
the musicological interpretation of the development of Dorian’s image which, according to the author’s intent, reveals
the external ‘unchanged’ image of the hero (the content plane) and the internal image that has gone through cardinal
transformations (the expression plane). As a result of his analysis, Konson comes to the conclusion that Dorian is
a complete ahrimanic personality, a killer-loner with the ‘false bottom’, esthete fulfilling himself in vice while being
known as a dandy in a society (a form of a superman) who was first shown as a neglect criminal and then a ‘professional’
murderer and a cruel extrapunitive person.
Keywords:
The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, prince charming, twin, beauty and estheticism, dandyism, human, devil, sell soul to the devil, murder / murderer.
Horizons of psychology
Reference:
Morkina, Yu. S.
Wild Life as an Anthropocosmic Phenomenon
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1162-1171.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65787
Abstract:
The subject of the research is the phenomena of the human world (anthropocosm) and wild life as an example
of such a phenomenon. Anthropocosm is studied as a transcendental field where these phenomena occur. Within the
framework of the present article, wild life is analyzed as a phenomenon of anthropocosm that has a high level of
complexity and can be described from different points of view: science, everyday life, art and philosophy. Complexity
of wild life as an anthropocosmic phenomenon means inclusion of the unexplored into the structure of wild life. Being
part of the human life phenomena, the unexplored becomes a subject of the present research as well. Methodology
of the present article includes the analysis of the definition of anthropocosmos and conduction of the interdisciplinary
research of the mind and science and determination of connections between them using phenomenological methods.
The term ‘anthropocosmos’ is offered by the author. Morkina believes this term to have a heuristic meaning for the phenomenological research of the human world. Anthropocosmoc includes conceptualization of the human world
understood as the entire humanity. The author shows that taking into account the fact that consciousness of the
humankind consists of individual consciousnesses of all people as empiric subjects, we can say that anthropocosm of
the present time will include all the phenomena created by the minds of all people at the present time. The author describes
how anthropocosm changes with time as our views and perception of the world are hanged and, consequently,
so re the phenomena constituted by the human mind (in general transcendental meaning). For the first time in the
academic literature the author shows that science obtains the ‘incomplete phenomenon’ because it does not take into
account the irrational component of the human mind.
Keywords:
anthropocosm, complexity, interdisciplinarity, phenomenon, cognition, unexplored, rationality, irrationality, science, biology.
Inner world
Reference:
Korneenkov, S. S.
Retrospection: Perinatal Experience of Soul/Consciousness inside the Material (Experimental Research of the Altered
State of Consciousness)
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1172-1185.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65788
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the issues of perinatal psychology. Theoretical and experimental research carried out by
the author of the article is based on the hypothesis that human a) is a self-developing creature whose consciousness stores
all the emotions experienced by him during his fetal period of development; b) being in the altered state of consciousness,
he can recall the mental states experienced by him during the perinatal period of fetal development. The purpose of the
research is: 1) to study scientific and yoga literature on the problem of the unity of consciousness, spirit and material in the
perinatal period of an individual’s life; 2) to carry out an experimental research of emotions, perception and cogitation of
an individual at different periods of perinatal development. The object of research is the altered state of consciousness. The
subject of research is the peculiarities of perception, cogitation and emotions of an individual’s consciousness a) before the
moment of meeting with a fertilized ovum, b) at the moment and after the moment of zygote formation c) in the first days
of a child’s life. The author uses the integrated technology of learning and self-knowledge (ITLSK) in the awake and altered
states of consciousness (ASC). The ASC was achieved in several steps according to a special procedure using the following
self-knowledge methods: setting, concentration, music, meditation, suggestion, self-suggestion, prayer, mantra and cosetting.
This is the first research in Russian science to receive data about peculiarities of perception, cogitation and emotions
in the perinatal period of fetal development through achieving the altered state of consciousness. Meditation allows
to consciously perceive ‘the other’ reality and accept one’s inner world and surrounding reality as the single entity. Deep
focus on oneself allows to achieve the state of calmness, harmony, knowledge and purity and fills one’s consciousness with
strength and energy. One’s internal world is the reality for our mind just as the external world is. Meditation can be used for
self-investigation and self-learning according to set goals as well as to study theory and practical application of psychology
and pedagogy, anatomy and physiology and other disciplines at a University.
Keywords:
perinatal psychology, individual consciousness, meditation, universal consciousness, perinatal experience, altered state of consciousness, conception (beginning of pregnancy), embryo, spirit, setting.
Mind games
Reference:
Sultanova, M. A.
Lourens Minnema. Play and (Post) Modern Culture (An Essay On Changes in the Scientific Interest in the Phenomenon
of Play) (Translated by Sultanova, M. A.)
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1186-1204.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65789
Abstract:
The essay is focused on the growth of the scientific interest of the modern Western culture in play as a phenomenon
and metaphor. The phenomenon of play is viewed as a theory (there is a great number of play theories).
However, these theories are often used in practice because the metaphor of play has proved to be heuristically useful.
They offer a modern system of views that can be used in research. The author of the essay tries to trace back the
process of changes in the scientific interest in the concept of play and the process of developing the concept of play
as a phenomenon and a metaphor of contemporary (post) modern Western culture. Contemporary Western culture is
defined by Lourens Minnema as the (post) modern culture. From this point of view the author of the essay compares
this culture with a game, a combination of games without an overall aim, play without a transcendent destination but
with particular rules observed by players. According to the author of the essay, Western scientific interest in play as
a phenomenon and a metaphor is characteristic of the way in which contemporary (post)modern culture sees itself. Today it is impossible to imagine the Western discourse in any sphere of research without the phenomenon of play,
even in such spheres as the theories of culture, economics, politics and etc. (Post) modern culture can be described in
terms of play, therefore, (post) modern culture can also express itself through play.
Keywords:
game, play, culture, modernism, post-modernism, play theory, theory of culture, metaphor, human nature, individualization, transcendentia.
To understand the human being
Reference:
Korniliev, V. V.
Process Approach to the Analysis of Mental States (Part 2)
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1205-1214.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65790
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the problem of describing the axis of mental time in the system of procedural analysis
of mental states. The purpose of the article is to define the spheres of mental past and mental future which resources
can be used by a mental intention. The author also analyzes the conceptual relations between the spheres of mental
future and mental past as well as what resources both spheres contain. Based on graphic and mathematical factors
the author also analyzes the variety of movements of mental intentions which, according to the author, is supposed
to show whether this system is applicable for describing all the variety of mental states. Psychological modeling is
one of the main methods used in this research. Psychological modeling allows to study how the dynamics of mental
intentions are presented in the system of mental time an biological time axes. As a result of the research, the author
has defined the four spheres of mental time and mental future. Each pair of these spheres describe mental skill of an
individual in quality and in quantity. Mental skills are a final parameter of a mental state. The norm is defined by a rigorous
frequency, symmetry and regular alternate movements of mental intentions. Pathology is defined by a chaotic
asymmetry of movements of mental intentions.
Keywords:
amplitude and frequency, mental past, mental future, sphere of mental intentions, genius, pathology, fluctuation, mental intention, mental resource, axis of the mental time.
Personal motivation and spirituality
Reference:
Martianova, G. Yu.
Determinacy of Client’s Activity in Individual Psychological Counseling by His Responsibility
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1215-1221.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65791
Abstract:
The article reveals specifics of the motivational activity of clients in the process of individual psychological
counseling depending on the degree of their responsibility. The purpose of the practical research is to analyze correlation
relationships between internality and motivation at the beginning and the end of counseling. The researcher
shows the growth of social motivation, motives for self-fulfillment and self-respect, desire to decrease the tension in
a difficult life situation and achieve a goal. These indicators depend on the effectiveness of a counseling session. The
researcher proves that responsibility is a necessary and required condition for psychological counseling because it
guarantees the motivational involvement of a client in the counseling process and the success of the session. Methodologically
the research is based on the main provisions of the subjective approach to activity as a source of responsibility
and personal self-determination. It has been experimentally proved that the rise in internality as a parameter
of personal responsibility creates changes in self-respect, self-fulfillment and intention to achieve a goal. The growth
of responsibility most of all depends on the degree of self-respect that a person retains in a difficult life situation. The
proven fact that responsibility is directly related to motivation creates the need for elaboration of the activity principle
of a client in psychological counseling.
Keywords:
responsibility, self-determination, motivational involvement, personal activity, psychological counseling, social support, self-fulfillment, self-respect, tension in a need state, goal achievement.
Diversity of religious experiences
Reference:
Zaytseva, M. L.
Spiritual Senses as the Basis of Esthetic Consciousness of the Medieval Age
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1222-1230.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65792
Abstract:
The subject under review is the synaesthesia as a system attribute of thinking. The author of the article tries to
prove that in the Middle Ages the esthetic expressiveness of an artistic image was defined by the ability of all elements
of the sacred art to act as a stimulus for sensory pathways and arising emotional resonance. The author establishes
that the synaesthetic perception of cathedral arts comes with a synergetic effect created by the liturgical image which
is viewed as a symbol, sacral bearer of divine energy and spiritual power of a prototype, sacral ontological phenomenon or spiritual archetype see by worshippers. Methodological base of the article consists of the general scientific
method of generalization and comparison (to prove the integral nature of synaesthesia as an example of the principle
of holism) and particular historical method allowing to define the main ideological factors that had an influence on
the development of art during the Medieval Age. The article is devoted to the analysis of synaesthetic grounds of
artistic thinking of the Middle Ages. This is the first research to view art from the point of view of synaesthesia as a
system attribute of thinking and esthetic perception. The author proves the hypothesis that the esthetic perception of
cathedral arts was defined by the fact that art and theology were mutually correlating poles that create the image of
culture as a spiritual energetic field. The author also underlines the importance of interoceptive senses in the process
of esthetic perception.
Keywords:
synaesthesia, synaesthesia of artistic thinking, spiritual feelings, spiritual vision, spiritual eyesight, psychology of creativity, theology, Medieval art, cathedral art, esthetic perception.
Clinical psychology
Reference:
Chernova, E. P., Borisova, E. Yu., Kozina, I. B.
Development of Functional Units of the Brain of Children Aged 5-7 Years with Speech Pathology
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1231-1239.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65793
Abstract:
The subject under research is the peculiarities of the development of functional units of the brain (according to
Alexander Luria’s theory). Children aged 5-7 years with general speech underdevelopment of the 1st, 2d and 3d levels
living in the Republic of Mari El were studied. The three functional units of their cognitive activity were studied: the unit
of programming, regulating and verifying mental activity, the unit of obtaining, processing and storing information and
the ‘energy’ unit regulating cortical tone or waking. Peculiarities of the serial programming of movements and actions
were evaluated based on the analysis of neuropsychological tests for dynamic praxis and telling a story with pictures.
Programming and control of voluntary actions were evaluated based on the analysis of the results of such tests as the
choice experiment and putting pictures in order. The unit of obtaining, processing and storing information was evaluated
based on the results of the following tests performed by children with speech dysfunction: the test for processing kinesthetic
information (finger pose praxis), the test for processing verbal information (verbal memory), the test for processing
visual information (perception of crossed out images) and the test for processing visual-spatial information (redrawing a
picture). The energy unit was evaluated based on the results of the tests for reciprocal coordination, dynamic praxis and
graphomotor test. Methodological base of the research includes the main concepts of neuropsychology on the structure
and brain organization of higher mental functions (Luria, Vizel, Simernitskaya, Tsvetkova, Shklovsky and others). Neuropsychological
approach to the analysis of speech dysfunctions is one of the most promising approaches because it allows
to study speech pathology at the level of interaction of brain systems and functions. This, in its turn, allows to provide a
better understanding of speech as a higher mental function and predict its further development. Researchers have used
the neuropsychological diagnostics program including famous neuropsychological tests offered by Luria and modified
by Akhutina, Inshakova, Vizel and Semenovich. The scientific novelty of the research is in defining typical distinctive features
of the development of functional units of the brain of children with speech dysfunction based on the comparative
analysis of the results of neuropsychological diagnostics in terms of the age and severity of the speech underdevelopment.
Conclusions: 1. Children with speech dysfunctions, in particular, general speech underdevelopment of the 1st, 2d
and 3d levels demonstrate insufficient functioning of all the three units of the brain: the unit of programming, regulating
and verifying mental activity, the unit of obtaining, processing and storing information and the ‘energy’ unit regulating
cortical tone or waking. 2. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results of particular tests show irregularity in the
distribution and diversity of dysfunctions of particular functional units both in case of preschoolers with general speech
underdevelopment of the 1st and 2d levels and in case of preschoolers with general speech underdevelopment of the 3d
level. 3. Comparison of different levels of speech underdevelopment shows that children with general speech development
of the 1st and 2d levels had more difficulties with programming, regulating and verifying mental activity, obtaining,
processing and storing information and energy unit than children with general speech underdevelopment of the 3d level.
4. Analysis of the results of tests performed by children with speech dysfunction in terms of age shows that preschoolers
aged 6-7 years with general speech underdevelopment of the 1st and 2d levels have more difficulties in functioning of all
the three units of the brain.
Keywords:
neuropsychological analysis, general speech underdevelopment, functional units of the brain, neuropsychological tests, neuropsychological diagnostics program, speech pathology (dysfunction), conditional age norm, cross section method, dextrocerebral (right hemisphere) problems, sinistrocerebral (left hemisphere) problems.
Developmental psychology
Reference:
Palamonov, I. Yu., Orekhov, A. N.
Peculiarities of Recording Individual Features of Teenagers As the Part of the Technology for Increasing the Value
of Life
// Psychology and Psychotechnics.
2014. ¹ 11.
P. 1240-1253.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65794
Abstract:
The authors of the article provide a description of a set of methods for recording individual features of teenagers.
This set of methods has been developed especially to be used as a part of the technology for establishing the
value of life and prosocial orientation of teenagers aged from 14 to 17 who are active Internet users. The set of methods
include psychometric methods, in particular, the tests ‘Semantic Research of Social Attitudes’, ‘’Personal value
profile’ and ‘Your Value of Life’, the system of data processing and provision of recommendations for the individual
psychological influence on the mental structure of teenage personality and a structured system of Internet applications.
The Life Value and Prosocial Orientation Technology is based on the use of famous Internet applications: Vkontakte
(social network), ooVoo video chat community, YouTube video service, Google Docs as well as e-mail service and
a specially designed website www.ìîÿòåìà-ìîÿæèçíü.ðô. The main approach applied to the development of the
system for recording individual features of teenagers when developing their value of life and increasing their prosocial
orientation is based on the combination of the ideographic and nomothetic methods. This approach allows to base the
research on general theories of psychic phenomena as well as general principles of psychology including principles of
determinism, holism, activity, development, systems approach, causation and positivity. Theoretical grounds of such
record include: rigorous psychological theory that make good use of mathematical tools and results of the analysis of
theories and concepts of behavioral modification. This is the first research to develop and verify a set of Internet applications
and psychometric methods especially developed for diagnosing individual features of teenagers and allowing
to receive information about the semantic structure of teenager’s attitudes, his personal value profile and drivers of
increasing of their value of life. The set of methods include psychometric methods, in particular, the tests ‘Semantic
Research of Social Attitudes’, ‘’Personal value profile’ and ‘Your Value of Life’, the system of data processing and provision
of recommendations for the individual psychological influence on the mental structure of teenage personality and
a structured system of Internet applications. The results of the experiment proved the efficiency of the combination of
general and individualized influence on a teenager. The researchers have also discovered durable prosocial attitudes
in the psychic structure of personality of a teenager. Experience in implementing the technology at relevant organizations
has shown that these organizations are much interested in the technology. The authors of the article give master
classes on how to use the aforesaid technology and the set of psychometric methods.
Keywords:
value of one’s own life, personal value profile, semantic research of attitudes, life value increasing, prosocial orientation, Internet technology, teenage Internet users, rigorous psychological theory, theories of behavioral modification.