Abstract: Continuing the topic of the merchants’ ethics, the author wonders what eventually led to its crisis. It is underlined that the most important element of the merchants’ ethics was moral norms and restrictions regulating the merchants’ behavior.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, Protestantism, merchants’ word, merchants’ ethics

Abstract: The article is devoted to the conception of Soul and Sensuality created by Marsilio Ficino, philosopher of the Renaissance epoch. It is noted that Soul has an inner light. The author also discusses the thought of our body being the storage of the immortal Soul.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, soul, body, art, fantasy, ratio, beauty, culture, sensuality

Abstract: Throughout many decades philosophy studied the thinking processes quite independently from other sciences and mostly in the context of intellectual potentials and without taking into account the anthropological aspect. However, such a tendency to ‘keep’ the thinking theory from related branches of science is out of date now. Psychologists start to identity human with his cognitive style. The author of the article makes an attempt to reveal the anthropological grounds of thinking.

Keywords: psychology, human, thinking, cognition, cognitive style, abstraction, meaning, experiment, intellectuality, symbol

Abstract: This is the translation of a clinical case described by a famous American psychoanalyst and Freud’s follower M. Brunswick. In the final part of her description M. Brunswick speaks of the three paranoiac episodes the patient goes through during the psychoanalytical therapy.

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

Abstract: Individuation process is the key concept of Jung’s psychology. According to Jung, individuation is a life-long process of a human acquiring his ideally integrated personality as it is disposed by the Providence. The author of the article makes an attempt to take an analytical look at the individuation conception.

Keywords: psychology, personality, process, wholeness, individuation, individuality, sexuality, conflict, psyche, integration

Abstract: Hallucination is one of the most frequently met symptoms of mental diseases. In most cases hallucinations denote a psychopathological disorder. Psychiatrists call hallucinations ‘false perceptions’. Patients see images and objects which don’t exist; they hear words which have never been said; they feel fragrances which have never been there.

Keywords: psychology, hallucinations, images, delusion, dreams, pseudo hallucinations, feeling, human, emotions, psychopathology

Abstract: The author defined the methodology of studying the human genius. The conception of ‘human genius’ is viewed as the synthesis of such concepts as creative gift and vocation, spirit and spirituality and genius. Genius is considered to be an essential feature of the humankind. The author revealed the conceptions of ‘spiritual creativity’ and ‘creative idea’ and defined the characteristics of a creative idea. The author also suggests the main goals of studying the human genius: experience of spiritual life of genius people, relation between a talent and a genius, creative work of a genius as providence, genius as a creator of new spiritual worlds and rise of a genius. The author defined the main personal attributes of a genius person: authenticity, creativity, integrated perception, absolute obsession, strive for perfection and others.

Keywords: psychology, philosophy, genius, love, vocation, creative gift, spirituality, talent, spiritual creativity, creative idea

Abstract: The article considers the problem of a norm and deviation in culture as well as understanding of deviant behavior in various societies depending on their cultural environment. The author also described the evolution of a term ‘deviation’ as well as evolution of punishment for deviant behavior. The article contains an analysis of sub-cultures as the brightest manifestations of deviation from the socially recognized norms.

Keywords: psychology, social studies, deviation, deviant behavior, norm, abnormality, punishment, sub-culture

Abstract: The idea of ‘incomplete human’ has been considered by many philosophers. In psychology of the unconscious this idea was mostly viewed by Jung and his followers. Analyzing the A. P. Chekhov’s story ‘Black Monk’ the author tries to explain what happens to a person during a spiritual crisis and whether it is a mental disease or an emotional state.

Keywords: Chekhov’s medical ‘story’, Chekhov’s dream about the blank monk, spiritual crisis, coming back to the pat, Andrey Kovrin’s hallucinations, James about alternative states of mind, Jung about autonomous complexes, monomania and pathological inflations, Grof

Abstract: The author appeals to the topic of Internet addiction and views it from the psychological point of view. It is noted that the virtual world which seems to be more comfortable than the real life, creates the threat for a successful life in reality. The author is led to believe that Internet addiction can be classified as a human disorder.

Keywords: psychology, Internet, reality, virtual, human, character, feelings, thoughts, need, disorder