Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of a personal ‘wholeness’. The roots of the problem lay both in the spheres of psychology and philosophy and the problem is only awaiting to be researched. According to the author, wholeness of a human is not his inherited quality at all. It is his deep need, his aspiration for harmony with his self and his being.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, human, being, psyche, wholeness, cartography

Abstract: Functional status defines the quality and the level of public life, labor productivity and labor capacity. According to the authors, if we study the functional status of forced migrants, it will show us the way to improve their well-being and labor capacity when they move to a new place.

Keywords: psychology, forced migrants, mature age, professional groups, functional status

Abstract: This is the translation of a lecture read by Otto Kernberg, professor, PhD of Medicine and president of the International Psychoanalytical Associations. The lecture was first read and written down in 1992 in Urbino, Italy. The lecture of the American psychiatrist was mostly devoted to such terms as ‘narcissism’ and ‘narcissistic personality’. Narcissistic personality is viewed as a pathological regulation of the self-esteem and ‘narcissistic personality’ as the worst form of the ‘pathological’ narcissism. The professor also described the main methods of therapy of narcissistic personality disorders (psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical therapy and supporting psychotherapy.

Keywords: psychoanalysis, philosophy, narcissism, self-esteem, neurosis, pathology, narcissistic personality, psychoanalytical psychotherapy

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Abstract: This is the translation of an article by a Canadian psychoanalyst Roger A. Dufresne. In his article Dufresne described the clinical case of healing the ‘narcissistic anguish’ based on his own clinical case of the patient who had undergone a serious emotional trauma as a child. Dufresne analyzed the theories of narcissism and defined such terms as ‘narcissistic field’, ‘interference’, ‘narcissistic personality’.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, interference, narcissism, anxiety, trauma

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Abstract: This article is an attempt to determine the definition ‘narcissistic personality’ in a totally different light and not as a universal personal trait. The myth about Narcissus is interpreted differently from Freud. The article also contains the description of a clinical case with a representative of ‘narcissistic’ personality. The author especially underlines that there is a danger of a ‘social’ narcissism.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, narcissistic type of personality, human nature, psychological trait, asociality, myth, brokenness of human being, love

Abstract: The author of the article has extended the definition ‘emotional exhaustion’ as an element of professional deformation of both students and specialists working in the sphere of psychology and teaching. The author described the psychological prerequisites for emotional exhaustion which can be endured by future teachers and psychologists as well as working specialists. These prerequisites include: below average emotional and/or physical exhaustion, early stages of tension and resistance, formation of specific symptoms when the specialist experiences a psychological trauma, anxiety and depression, inadequate emotional reaction, reduction of professional duties, emotional deficit and emotional distance. It is specifically underlined that there is a need to take into account the following facts when training specialists and applying preventive measures: absence of a stage of emotional exhaustion and self discontent, personal distance and psychosomatic and vegetative disorders.

Keywords: tension, professional deformation, psychic deformation, psychological defense, resistance, stress, emotions, emotional disadaptation, emotional exhaustion

Abstract: What is ‘human’? What makes us human and what makes us different from the animal world? Based on Jung’s works, the author insists that the answer to that question is ‘imagination’. Humans have a specific ability to perceive the world in images and human archetypes are a great example of that.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, archetype, image, monade, imagination, unconsciousness, monad, imagination, the unconscious, psychoid, instinct, perception, conscience

Abstract: In this article the author viewed the parallel ontological development of the structure of correlated social institutions and the structure of psychic forms belonging to these social institutes. The author evidently showed the growing dependence of social institutions on evolutionally developing psychic forms of the humankind and described how these forms related to the psychic forms of social institutions. It is underlined that human has a naturally established mission ‘to control’ the activity of social institutions.

Keywords: psychology, society, institute, social, habitus, algorithm, protopersonality, personality, species, human being

Abstract: This is the critical review of various conceptions devoted to the phenomenology of Narcissistic personality. The author also gave her own variant of interpretation of the myth about Narcissus as well as described the alternative theory of atomism, mechanicalism and essentialism. In addition, the article contains an expert review of modern interpretations of the term ‘narcissistic personality’.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, narcissism, myth, mythology, narcissistic personality, libido, eroticism

Abstract: The article is devoted to the everyday life in a shared apartment of a soviet type in the light of psychological and social studies. The author underlined the eccentric nature of such a life style. The article also contains description of ‘communal’ traditions and morals.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, sociology, everyday life in a shared apartment, traditions, system of morals, human relations, homo sovieticus

Abstract: This article is a review of the book ‘Hello Soul” by a famous Russian psychologist, analyst and writer Valery Vsevolodovich Zelensky. In his book Zelensky summed up all his works devoted to the study of phenomenology of spirit. Zelensky’s works well show his versatile nature and tendency to reflect on the key problems of psychoanalytical theory and practice.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, soul, spirit, phenomenology, psychoanalysis