Abstract: As continuation of the topic on the merchants’ ethics declaring labor to be a very special value, the author considers the conceptions of labor in various religious movements such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Protestantism.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, religion, labor, value

Abstract: The author of the article described his method of dividing the ways of future prediction into intuitive and discursive and suggested his own conception of their complementarity. According to the author, discursive prognostic practices are represented by various forms of conceptual manifestation of the common practice of future prediction, arranged and systematized in a certain order with the help of language. Intuitive prognostic practices often use language and words for expressing ‘intuitive feelings’, too, but their typical features include subjectivity, emotionality and a low degree of understanding the true mechanisms of acquiring such information about future.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, philosophy of science, anticipation, forecast, prophecy, insight, prognosis, prognostic practices, intuition, discourse

Abstract: The article contains an analysis of modern sources related to the problem of life construction. The author notes how valuable and fragile this phenomenon is. According to the author, nowadays human body is not something which is given us once and forever. It is often recreated which creates numerous social and anthropological problems.

Keywords: psychology, body, microorganisms, mechanical systems, biology, industry, eugenics, cyborgs, superman

Abstract: The author of the article speaks of Otto Weininger’s contribution to studying the phenomenon of genius. The author also describes the difficulties arising when investigating this particular topic. It is underlined that genius is not typical for only genius people. According to Otto Weininger, ‘genius’ a synonym of ‘human’.

Keywords: psychology, genius, male and female, philosophy, talent, human, conscience, insanity

Abstract: Adler continued the topic of the ‘split’ human existence which had been started by Freud. Adler appealed to the phenomenon of human nature and showed that the harmony of human nature is usually broken up from inside. The author of the article pays special attention at Adler’s topic of power mania.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, human nature, evolution, biology, power mania, character, inner world, neurosis, human being

Abstract: Analyzing the state of psychosis, the author appeals to Jacques Lacan’s works. It is assumed that the state of psychosis demonstrates the ‘absence of the author’. A psychotonic has neither image of a speaker nor a symbolic border.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, pleasure, symbolic, language, speech, subject, psychosis, psychotonic, phallus, subject, meaning, meant

Abstract: This is the translation of a clinical case described by a famous American psychoanalyst and Freud’s follower M. Brunswick. In the first part of her description M. Brunswick speaks of the infantile sexual tendencies of the patient suffering from the delusion of jealousy.

Keywords: psychology, psychoanalysis, paranoia, delusion of jealousy, sexuality

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Abstract: The author gives a more profound definition of the term ‘emotional exhaustion’ and describes psychological peculiarities of emotional exhaustion of psychologists and teachers. According to the authors, these peculiarities include: higher than average level of self-confidence, average level of accumulated emotions and energy kept inside, medium level of activity, asthenia, euphoria, calmness-anxiety, vitality-fatigue, elated-suppressed moods. The author particularly underlines that when arranging preventive measures, it is necessary to take into account the following results of the study: absence of anxiety and depression, below average level of neurosis, neurotization and feeling of helplessness, above average level of well-being and mood.

Keywords: activity, asthenia, helplessness, depression, mood, neurosis, professional adaptation, professional deformation, well-being, calm, anxiety, self-confidence, fatigue, euphoria, emotional exhaustion, vitality

Abstract: The article considers professional interests of modern school seniors. The author has carried out a theoretical analysis of dynamics of professional interests and abilities of schoolchildren throughout the 20th century. It is shown that very often seniors are interested in professions which will become popular only in the following decades. Professional interests of modern school seniors are analyzed from the point of view of the theory of integral individuality. It is shown that teenagers with a strong temperament are often interested in humanities, while highly intellectual teenagers are more interested in the ‘human-sign’ type of profession, chemistry and math. Socially active seniors are interested in the ‘human-human’ type of profession but they are also often interested in math and chemistry.

Keywords: psychology, school interests, professional inclinations, professionals, seniors, intellect, personality, integral individuality, abilities, cognitive processes

Abstract: The author analyzes the life path of modern leaders and leading professionals. The author studied the following parameters of activity of future leaders in schools and universities: social work, educational activities, out-of-school activities. Then the author compared these parameters with the same parameters of activity of future leading specialists. It is shown that there is no correlation between the form of the chosen career (professional and a leader) and progress in studies but there is a certain correlation between future specialists’ choice and active social work in schools and universities. Surprisingly, it has been found out that future professionals are usually more active and socially successful during their studies while future leaders are less active in their social life and social work. The author also explained the phenomenon mentioned above.

Keywords: psychology, management, social work, life path, personality, tike, activity, labor, education, profession

Abstract: The article considers the methods of teaching foreigners, in particular, teaching Russian vocabulary to foreigners. The author analyzes how nationality influences our vocabulary. It is noted that when speaking a foreign language, some serious mistakes can actually change the meaning of a phase and a conversation.

Keywords: method of teaching foreign languages, mechanisms of memory, probability projection, equivalents, connection between memory and imagination

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Abstract: The article is based on the author’s report at the press conference held on February 16, 2010 by the society ‘Logistics and Media’, the conference being devoted to the topic ‘21st century and social status of ‘indecent disease’. The author noted the factors influencing the ‘shameful diseases’ and described the psychological type of people subject to hemorrhoid. The article also covers the psychological aspects of this disease.

Keywords: psychology, psychological type, taboo, illness, anal personality, shame, morality, psychoanalysis, sexual revolution