Abstract: The article criticizes the widely spread idea of a necessity to teach children finances from an early age. Based on the author, such an approach does not only deprive a child from enjoying a romantic childhood, but can also lead to serious psychological problems in adulthood.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, children, money, society, consumer society, anal state of development

Abstract: The article considers the phenomenon of social adaptation of personality in terms of different scientific approaches: philosophical, biological, psychological, social, and pedagogical; provides a definition of “social adaptation” proposed by different scientists; analyzes the characteristics of social adaptation, depending on the approach to be taken.

Keywords: pedagogy, adaptation, phenomenon, personality, approach, peculiarities, society, science, school, category

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Abstract: This is a biographical essay telling us how a famous Austrian doctor and psychologist, founder of the individual psychology Alfred Adler formed his personality and scientific views. The essay was written by Carl Furtmuller, one of Adler’s associates. Special attention is paid at the role which Sigmund Freud played in Alfred Adler’s life and scientific work.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, individual psychology, Alfred Adler

Abstract: The article reflects the results of the carried out research of the argument from the point of view of the cognitive approach which for the first time considers correlations between cognitive style parameters and indicators of arguments.

Keywords: psychology, convincing, cognitive style, proof, substantial indicators of arguments, cogitation, field dependence, cognitive complexity, concrete conceptualization, impulsivity

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Abstract: This is the continuation of translation of Alfred Adler’s work ‘Knowledge of People’. There Adler talks about a special discipline in science, - knowledge of people as he calls it, - and also about human soul, social peculiarities of a spiritual life and inferiority complex, the latter being the natural result of human socialization, as Adler sees it.

Keywords: psychology, knowledge of people, Adler, human, society, child, inferiority complex

Abstract: The article reveals how the category of success changed with time and what historical, philosophical and cultural aspects it has had. The author of the article analyzes the connection between objective (external) and subjective (internal) types of success. According to the author, the positive core of success is the unity of a desire to reach a goal and a following satisfaction from chosen ways of achieving what was desired.

Keywords: psychology, cultural studies, success, assumption, successfulness, work, objective and subjective success, internal and external success, desire

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Abstract: The article specifies the definition of psychological readiness for professional activity taking into account modern peculiarities of electric power industry. Self-regulation is viewed as an important element of psychological readiness of students studying to be engineers in various spheres of electric power industry.

Keywords: psychology, labor psychology, power industry, difficult situations, students, psychological readiness, psychological readiness for activity, self-regulation, regulatory processes, locus of control, professionally important qualities

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Abstract: The article introduces the concept «dynamism» which is defined as a feature of an electronic textbook (ET). Dynamism consists in the ability of a relatively rapid update (actualization) of a educational resource’s content and structure with due account taken of newest achievements in science, technology and education. The article describes various aspects and contradictions of this feature’s implementation. The research of «dynamisation » process is also based on a concrete example of ET for the course of studies «Technologies of vocationalcentered education».

Keywords: teaching, textbook, didactics, dynamism, innovation, cogitation, actualization, resource, information, course

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the concept of psychological stability of administration managers and influence of various parameters and pressing challenges on development of such stability. The author quotes what administration managers said about their psychological stability and defines the factors having a good impact on development of psychological stability. The author also describes the ways to raise and improve the level of psychological stability for modern administration managers.

Keywords: psychology, stability, government officials, personnel, administration, parameters, optimization, development, activity, professional skills

Abstract: The author of the article refutes the point of view of professors A.F. Losev and I.S. Kon that ancient Greeks had no notion about the idea of personality. It is shown that belief of ancient Greeks in fate in no way relieved the person of responsibility and that the necessity for the citizen of the police independently to take decisions in multiple changing situations presupposed a person with intelligent self-consciousness and strong Self.

Keywords: personality, body, fate, soul, tragedy, belief, gods, freedom, self-consciousness, humanism

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Abstract: The article reveals the issues of maternal destructiveness: the destruction is based on infantile and unsolved tragedy of children’s and parents’ relationships, the feeling of helplessness and dependence, impossibility to overcome the ‘bad’ object and inability to accept and cope with growing destructive impulses.

Keywords: psychology, maternal destructiveness, pregnancy, labour, death, female identity, maternal imago, deprivation, dependence, fear

Abstract: Eros and love are unique occurrences which make us human. They motivate us to seek our other half in a hope to finally save ourselves from another unique human feeling, the feeling of loneliness.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, Eros, love, human, bisexuality

Abstract: Continuing to explore the history of human sexuality, the author viewed the image of witch as a personification of our unconscious fear in the face of our instincts.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, Eros

Abstract: The article describes the history of studies of the psychological defence phenomena. It is shown that since the beginning of the 20th century there have been the two lines of studying the defence mechanisms, - one is connected with psychoanalysis and the other one is related to Alfred Adler’s psychology. The latter is also called the holistic approach to understanding and studying psychological defenses. The author of the article traces back the history of formation of the holistic approach and describes the structure and logic of its development.

Keywords: psychology, culture, mechanisms, tendency, style, defence, inferiority, compensation, analysis, holism