History and logic of projective techniques evolution as well as methodological problems of a study that is based on application of projective methods are discussed in the article. Critics of the “classical” paradigm of thinking about projective methods and new “non-classical” one are suggested. Investigation into the peculiarities of a projective study implementation (on the material of CAT) is used for the support of the new approach.

The article addresses the problem of conditionality personal development characteristics of the student teaching system in which he learns. The results of two stages (with a gap of 10 years) comparative study of children completing primary education cycle in the traditional and Waldorf schools. To study the content, complexity and differentiation of a child to engage in meaningful events and players surrounding the validity of nonverbal applied projective method (color test relations). Revealed significant differences in the nature of emotional and personal experiences of students in different educational environments.

In this work we examine the main approaches to the research of emotions of patients suffering from eating disorders, and discuss possibilities to apply such terms as «emotional intelligence», «representation», and «sign-symbolic mediation» to the analysis of emotional regulation during eating disorders. In addition, we deliver the results of an empiric research on representation of emotions with patients suffering from bulimia nervosa that are interpreted based on the theoretical analysis.

This article is the study of manual motor activity (his spatial and dynamic organization, interhemispheric transfer and coordination). The study of 58 children (healthy and with the Down syndrome), demonstrate the genesis of cerebral asymmetry and interhemispheric coordination, and the grave disturbances of these functions in dysontogenesis.

Assessment of the psychometrical features of the Russian version of Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) was conducted on the sample of students (n=196; different specializations, from different cities across Russia). The following methods were used: Cronbach’s alfa coefficient, test-retest, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis. As a result Scales of the Inventory show good validity, internal consistency reliability and reproducibility. Factor structure of the Russian version of ZTPI is almost identical reproduction of the original Inventory factor structure. Convergent and discriminant validity was shown.

Proxymology is a new approach based on a multidimensional analyze of patients and caregivers surrounding. In Parkinson’s disease, human surrounding depends on duration of the disease, autonomy of patients, and sometime of associated cognitive disorders. Patients’ quality of life is altered with the disease progression as well as their caregivers’ quality of life. Specific needs of caregivers in Parkinson’s disease are discussed.

About the conference «The contemporary psychology of thinking: the meaning in the cognition».

The first All-Russian summer psychological school.

In the memory of Natalia Nikolayevna Meshkova.