Abstract: The article is devoted to the 90th anniversary of Elton Mayo’s psychological experiment at the Hawthorne Works (a Western Electric factory outside Chicago). It was the first experiment to study the social aspect of labor and to understand how a worker’s attitude to his role in labor process influences the labor productivity.

Keywords: psychology, industrial psychology, social studies, experiment, personality, motivation, labor productivity

Abstract: In her article the author continues the topic which she started at the international scientific conference ‘Modern Ontology – II: Being as a Central Problem of Ontology’ (held on 25-29 June 2007 at St. Petersburg, Russia. The author focuses her attention on anthropological strategies and psychological technologies of obtaining and understanding the taste of being and peculiarities of ‘being in taste’. The author also touches upon the following issues: gaining insight into being as a part of the present, mystical psychological and philosophical strategies.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, taste, measure, existence, the other, one whole, consciousness, mysticism, strategy

Abstract: In a mythological Ancient Egyptian picture of the world described by Heliopolis cosmogony incest relations between gods were quite natural. Having come out of the primordial waters of Nu creator Atum gave birth to twins representing the elements of the world: God of Air named Shu and Goddess Telfnut. In their turn, the twins gave birth to the God of Earth, Geb, and the sky goddess Nut. Their children, Osiris, Seth, Isis and Nephthys, became the main heroes of events described by Ancient Egyptian mythology. According to the author, from the point of view of psychology these myths reveal unconscious projections in a structure of taboo gende relations between relatives, in the first place, Isis, the mother, and Hathor, the son.

Keywords: psychology, archetype of Infant, image of the world, hero the savior, mater fixation, fratricide and incest, second birth, ambivalence of Mother’s archetype, conflict between consciousness and unconsciousness, solar symbolics of consciousness

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Abstract: The article contains notes on the report at the 1st World Congress of Russian-speaking Psychotherapists ‘Languages of Psychotherapy’. The report covers how psychoanalysis is perceived in modern Russian and what attitude traditional clinical medicine has towards it.

Keywords: psychology, Freud’s complex, translations of Freud’s works, scientization, impersonal approach, ‘bad therapist’, clinical medicine, constitutional approach, characterology, historical point of view, psyche, psychoanalysis

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Abstract: All Karen Horney’s theoretical developments are based on the concepts of the unconscious and conflicting nature of relations between society and a personality. Neo-Freudians already tried to explain the social order of people’s lives on the ground of the basic ideas of her philosophy. The article shows that Horney’s representation of Freud’s ideas were not always adequate and unprejudiced. Her conclusions about self-analysis seem rather controversial. According to the author, she had serious difficulties in her clinical practice, too.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, culture, tradition, personality, spiritual progress, society, sex, neurosis

Abstract: The article deals with authoritarianism as a personality characteristic. The authors bring forward arguments proving that as a set of personality traits, authoritarianism may include ‘positive’ and socially important qualities. The article supports a hypothesis that there is a certain connection between authoritarianism and self-regulating qualities, the latter being the result of interiorization of hierarchic relations of power.

Keywords: psychology, authoritarian personality, conventionalism, aggression, interiorization, submission, stereotype, personality, emotions, will

Abstract: This article is an attempt to compare different conceptions of happiness as the final gal of human life. Noteworthy that in these conceptions both ways to achieve happiness and the concepts of happiness differ greatly. The author also gives a model of ‘integrative’ concept of happiness.

Keywords: psychology, ethics, happiness, perception of the world, pleasure, virtue, goodness, blessing, freedom, immortality, knowledge

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Abstract: The cultural concept of ‘scenario’ is viewed from a psychological point of view. From this point of view it fixates identities of participants. The study is focused on scenarios of socialization of children of post-soviet emigrants to the USA. Identity, in its turn, defines perception and valuation of events and people around. The identity crisis is caused by unavoidable collision of scenarios typical for American and Russian societies. The author suggests an original technique ‘Family Pattern” for comparison of culturally predetermined family patterns.

Keywords: psychology, scenarios, socialization, identity, emotions, modality

Abstract: The article considers the opportunity of using performance as an art-therapy technique. The author describes differences between analytical, phenomenological and post-modernistic approaches to creative work. Being one of the forms of modern action arts, performance is free from virtuality, directive meaning, conceptual restrictions and a traditional conception of audience. Performance allows the audience and the actor to experience a series of therapeutic effects.

Keywords: psychology, performance, post-modernism, audience, meaning, publicity, self-observation, art, arttherapy, creative work

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Abstract: This article is one of the attempts to better understand the philosophy of circus and the means of expression helping to fully reflect the image and the peculiarity of the esthetical form of circus. Naivety is one of them.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, esthetics, circus, naivety, genre, trick, expression, image, attitude

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Abstract: This article contains information about a new method of psychotherapy, - psychotherapeutic edit. Psychotherapeutic edit is based on V. E. Meyerhold’s theatrical system and G. I. Gurdzhiev’s spiritual system. This method can be used in rehabilitation psychiatry such as therapy of neuroses, alcohol and drug addiction.

Keywords: psychiatry, psychotherapy, trans drama therapy, psychotherapeutic edit, theatre system, spiritual system, rehabilitation psychotherapy, neuroses, alcohol addiction, drug addiction

Abstract: This is a summary of selected articles ‘They don’t write like that anymore’. As the editor of the articles V. I. Tolstyh writes, he decided to find the form of expression of society and human, their needs and expectations. For this purpose V. I. Tolstyh applies to works by famous philosophers, philologists and critics as well as ‘philosophizing writers’.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, language studies, criticism, history, article

Abstract: This is a summary of P. I. Simush’ book ‘Poetical Individuality as a Key to Russia’s Mysteries’. Analyzing poems by Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Sysoev, the famous philosopher tries to answer the question about whether it is possible to express a country’s destiny by one poet’s works.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, culture, poetry, Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Sysoev, Russia

Abstract: This is a summary of I. V. Chindin’s work ‘Mythology of Culture. Russia’. In his monograph I. V. Chindin studies the anthropological aspect of cultural and religious metamorphoses in Russia during the 20th century. At the end of his monograph the author concludes that historical development of Russia cannot be described in only rational and logic terms.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, culture, mythology, Russia, research, cultural and anthropological phenomena, myth, plot

Abstract: This is a summary of L. A. Dyrkov’s and L.S. Sysoev’s monograph ‘Russian Messianism and Russia’s Destinies’. The authors of the monograph carry out a philosophical analysis of the essence of Russian messianism, its origins and evolution. In conclusion the authors underline that it is very important for Russia to find a national idea which would be based on true Russian values and free from messianism pretence.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, culture, Russia, national idea, nationalistic doctrines, messianism, values

Abstract: This is a summary of M. T. Stepanyants’ book ‘Islamic Mysticism’. In his work M. T. Stepanyants reveals the topic of Sufism based on broad historical and philosophical material.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, culture, anthropology, gnoseology, Sufism, Islam, mysticism

Abstract: This is a summary of selected poems by Doctor of Philosophy, leading research assistant of Institute of Philosophy of the RAS M. M. Novoselov ‘Through the Years of Feelings and Thoughts’.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, culture, poetry, lyrics

Abstract: This is a summary of the book ‘Popular Psychology of Personality Types’. The book contains six chapters, each of which answers the questions on how to use strong sides of a psychotype in teaching, family life, at work and personal self-improvement.

Keywords: psychology, popular psychology, personality, psychotype, spheres of life