Abstract: Editor-in-chief discusses a modern image of hysteria. He talks about complexes and sexuality from the point of view of modern views and morals.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, woman, complex, psychoanalysis, hysteria, Freud.

Abstract: The article analyzes views discussed by an American psychologist Gordon Allport. The latter developed a number of rules for psychoanalysts managing psychotherapy. At the samt time, American psychoanalyst viewed personality as a complex and ever-developing system of habits, stereotypes and personal traits.

Keywords: psychology, personality, traits, structure, dynamics, character, body, temper, counseling, management.

Abstract: The article presents a new look on delusions and hallucinations. Based on this approach it includes ‘strange object’ (a term introduced by Wilfred Bion) and ‘strange facts’ (a term introduced by the author of the article). When a patient suffers from the delusion of grandeur, he turns into a strange object or hallucination himself. For him, both hallucinations and the surrounding world disappear.

Keywords: psychology, schizophrenia, delusion, hallucination, persecution, influence, grandeur, subject, object, fact, hallucination.

Abstract: What is in common between a prayer and psychoanalytical session? A believer addresses to God while a patient lays hopes on a psychotherapist. Religion rests on revelations. A doctor deals with life events. Theologist strives for eternal verities. Healer is satisfied with crystallization of psychological experience. Religion cares for its own spirituality. Psychoanalyst conquers his patient’s inner world with the intention to tear off the divine cover. The article is devoted to the analysis of psychoanalytical religious conceptions.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, religion, personalism, humanism, heresy, confession, God, culture.

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 research of motivation. The author of the article describes the problems of motivation in modern psychology that are, first of all, related to the analysis of human activation sources and drivers of human activity and behavior. The author also reveals the processes of formation of motives depending on one’s personal traits.

Keywords: psychology, motivation, orientation, activity, needs, purposes, drivers, desires, interests, stimuli.

Abstract: The article analyzes the interaction between adult’s physical indicators and his cognitive potentials. Physical indicators include strength, speed, flexibility and balance. Intellectual potentials include parameters of creative thinking: mental flexibility, originality, mental speed and others. The study involves a correlation analysis. The study proves positive correlations between ability to coordination of movement and some indicators of divergent thinking (flexibility and productivity) as well as mental speed when solving tasks.

Keywords: psychology, potentials, physical potentials, cognitive processes, intellectual potentials, creative potentials, thinking, memory, flexibility, balance.

Abstract: As a part of methodological researches of the principle of subject, the author of the article analyzes the contents of the category ‘subject’ that is used in applied psychology and related to professional activity and personal development in the sphere of profession. It is shown that common definitions of the term ‘subject’ do not go beyond the postulate ‘major specialty’ ad ‘person-and-profession’ system. However, the author defines a new feature of a subject who has reached a high level of professional skills, enters another system — ‘the person and the world’ — and addresses to the category ‘ontological subject’. Only such analysis allows to reveal the entire range of relations with the world that is being realized by a highly skilled specialist in his professional activity.

Keywords: psychology, labor subject, professional activity, professional development, major, person-and-profession system, high level of professional skills, ontological subject, person-and-world system.

Abstract: The author of the article offers a psychological typology of information-based professional activity. This study represents application of an information-based approach to psychological research of information-based professional activity. The author of the article discusses the established methods of determination of information-psychological parameters of economist’s labor stations that lies at the root of classification. The author also makes a hypothesis about the established typology of labor stations being one of the most important determinants of psychological structure of the studied activity.

Keywords: psychology, professional activity, psychological typology, information environment, psychological support, information- based approach, labor station, application, methods, psychological structure.

Abstract: Formation of a professional self-consciousness among young people is one of the most significant issues that contribute to creation of active drivers in social and professional environments. A person who happens to be at a penal institution is temporarily isolated from the society that has a negative influence on his legal and social status. Many citizens experience serious problems with everyday and professional adaptation after they are released. This is why the goal of psychological service at a penal institution is to help convicts prepare for their release as well as find their professional identity and re-socialize. A program described in this article is part of the model of psychological support of development of professional self-consciousness when working with convicted under-age delinquents. The article contains a description of the program taking into account peculiarities of under-age convicts and their life conditions.

Keywords: psychology, self-consciousness, personal identity, convicts, delinquents, provision, model, program, occupations, profession.

Abstract: The article is devoted to training of future professionals majoring in ‘socio-cultural activity and folk arts’ as part of a discipline called ‘general piano playing course’ in this day and age.

Keywords: pedagogy, music, teaching, student, quality, training, specialist, piano, school, modeling.