Abstract: The article deals with the psychological aspects of death. The problem of death is one of the fundamental problems affecting the limiting basis of life. The instinct of destruction is functioning in an every living being and it attempts to lead one to its death, bringing life to the original condition of the inanimate matter. The instinct of death is transformed into an instinct of destruction only when it is directed to objects. The living being retains its own life by destroying someone else’s. But some part of the death instinct remains to act within a living organism.

Keywords: psychology, life, death, culture, symbol, immortality, transcendence, therapy, religion, suffering.

Abstract: This is an abstract from Viktor Frankl’s work ‘Recollections’ published in 2000. The original version of this work was named ‘What is not said in my book’ and published in Germany.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, human, meaning, biography.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the hermeneutical analysis of the written works of St. Nil of Sora. The author examines the major works of the elder and demonstrates their importance in the history of Russian pedagogy. The views of St. Nil differed from the other authoritative representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, St. Nil believed that the enormous edifying power is hidden in the writings of the Holy Fathers. Educational concept of the elder is an expanded teaching of the Russian life feeling according to the patristic tradition, where the main method of knowledge is a hermeneutic method, that presupposes comprehension of the meaning the works of the Fathers concerning to the realities of the era, pedagogical reality, practice of education and training.

Keywords: teaching, prayer, silence, anthropology, saints, spirituality, morality, education, the Nonpossessors Movement, St. Nil of Sora.

Abstract: The article highlights the issues of a re-socialization of convicted juveniles in the aspect of psychological and educational work with the individual during adolescence. The article reflects the importance of the legal mechanism of socialization and re-socialization of juveniles serving their sentences in a juvenile correctional institution. Author discusses the importance of psychological and educational work in the institution and the subsequent work to support adaptation of persons outside of it. The article marks personal characteristics necessary for the re-socialization of convicted juveniles, lists the main task of adults-psychologists: the focus on the development characteristic of adolescence. The articles gives the objectives of development during adolescence, on which a program of the re-socialization of convicted juveniles can be constructed.

Keywords: psychology, personality, re-socialization, development, society, adaptation, a convict, a person, juvenile, right.

Abstract: The article deals with features of psychiatrists’ personality profiles and types of empathy, depending on the additional education in the field of psychotherapy. Author points out the differences in these indicators between psychiatrists and psychiatrists-psychotherapists that reflects the inclusion of “subjectivity” in the professional work. The article gives the analysis of the results of a research on methods (a test to assess the type and level of empathy by Boiko, V.V.; MMPI, adapted by Berezin F.B. and Miroshnikov, M.P.) in two groups of psychiatrists (120 men) aged 24-61 years old. A statistical analysis allowed to determine the differences in this characteristics for psychiatrists and psychotherapists. The data obtained allowed author to formulate the relationship of personality profiles and types of empathy with the peculiarities of building relationships with patients, the dominant paradigms in the mental and psychological sciences.

Keywords: psychology, education, professional, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, personality, empathy, subjectivity, objectivity, paradigm.

Abstract: The article attempts to answer the question of what professional and personal qualities one must have to become a successful real estate agent, what are the internal and external factors affecting the success of professional staff. A brief overview of the specifics of real estate activities is given. The article views the concepts of addiction and the ability for a particular activity. Author analyses the influence of the dynamic characteristics on the formal scope of the individual ability to be successful in real estate activities, gives a professional and psychological portrait of a successful realtor.

Keywords: psychology, successful activities, real estate, temperament, inclination, ability, formal and dynamic properties of the personality, motivation to achieve success, internality, extroversion.

Abstract: The articles presents the study focused on analysis of gender psychosomatic symptom formation. The study involved 20 women diagnosed with F45.3 — “somatoform dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system”, and 20 women without diagnosed somatoform disorders with the use of the gender role questionnaire BSRI S. Bam. The article shows that gender identity is a complex system, in which structure the following components are identified: a gender ideal, gender stereotype and internal gender. The article confirms that an internal gender acts as a flexible, dynamic education, changing its values in the course of the disease. Authors had found that the psychological factor of somatoform disorders appears in inconsistency of gender ideals, gender stereotypes and internal gender. The article allocates two gender factors of psychosomatic symptom formation that implement two different strategies of pseudo-resolution of the intrapersonal conflict: the rejection of the internal gender and finding more femininity.

Keywords: psychology, psychosomatics, disease, conflict, symptom, identity, femininity, gender, ideal, stereotype.

Abstract: The article presents the results of a study of views of teachers and students about the characteristics of psychological security of the educational environment. The experiments showed that the psychological safety of students was due to the level of development of integrated personality characteristics of teachers (orientation, competence, flexibility and self-awareness). Author proves the effectiveness of psychological program that increases the level of development of integrated personality characteristics of teachers that affect the psychological safety of students.

Keywords: psychology, psychological safety, personal and professional development of teachers, self-awareness, focus, competence, flexibility, psychological developmental program, psychologically dangerous conditions of the school environment, psychologically safe characteristics of the school environment.

Abstract: The overall objective of the study: experimental test of the learning ability and self-knowledge in the unity of waking and altered states of consciousness. Partial purposes: a) to perform the subjective self-diagnosis of the left and right hemispheres on the basis of functional brain asymmetry; b) to establish psychological characteristics of personalities of the right and left hemispheres in different ages; c) to determine the characteristics of the psychological relationship between the individual and the Higher Self, d) to identify features of perception, emotions and thinking associated with the process of self-diagnosis in an altered state consciousness. To achieve the objectives of the study the author used the integrated technology of teaching and self-knowledge in the waking and altered states of consciousness, that allows to self-test and learn about the peculiarities of one’s mental development. The presence of functional brain asymmetry leads to the formation and development of two personalities as a whole. The harmonious development of an individual is provided in integration of psycho-physiological functions of the right and left hemispheres. The article brings into scientific use the term “a person of the left hemisphere” and “a person of the right hemisphere.”

Keywords: psychology, integral technology, self-knowledge, waking consciousness, an altered state of consciousness, meditation, integrated personality, the personality of the left hemisphere, the personality of the right hemisphere, Higher Self.