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The article presents the results of a case study of visual agnosia. A rare case of multiple visual agnosia (object agnosia, prosopagnosia, dyslexia, color agonsia) of a patient with the bilateral damage of the brain is described. A set of various methods has been developed to diagnose the variety of cognitive disorders. A neuropsychological approach has been used to qualitatively analyze errors. Some particular features of visual cognitive disorder are considered from the point of view of the dynamic complementary interaction between the brain hemispheres and their functional asymmetry.

The article shows the role of the attachment system (child-mother interactions) in development of a wide spectrum of individual personality characteristics. Emo tional attachment of the child to mother is considered as a complicated system of internal regulation and a basis of typology of mental development. Results of a series of empirical studies show the connection between the type of attachment, formed at the early stages of child development, and characteristics of his/her au tonomy, self-concept, self-esteem and empathy in preschool and middle childhood.

August 1, 2012 marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of Boris Gerasimovich Ananiev

The paper is devoted to validation of the Russian version of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). The questionnaire is aimed at evaluation of both “productive” and “destructive” cognitive strategies of affective moods’ regulation and is widely used in studies on coping with stress. The results of psychometric approbation demonstrated high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, content and construct validity of the prepared Russian version of the test. The empirical verification of the test in the groups of “norm” and patients with affective disorders confirms its diagnostic suitability for using in applied research.

The article presents results of the empirical study of the subjective life picture of contemporary teenagers, based on different milestones, represented in autobiographical memories or in the image of the future. In the empirical study using A. Kronik’s “Life Line” on the sample of 390 senior high school students the age-related differences between autobiographical memories and image of the future, specific emotional attitudes towards them, cultural specific and individual configuration of the memories and of the image of the future are shown. The image of the family takes a significant place in the image of the future of contemporary teenagers.

The results of investigation of psychological characteristics of 13 high-skilled rhythmic gymnasts are presented. The experimental procedure was conducted by means of “Sport imagery questionnaire” (SIQ) and objective methods (“Chronoscope-2006”, “Aktivaziometr”). It was shown that gymnasts prefer to use imageries of cognitive type but not motivational and use internal perspective of imagery versus external one. Participants were classified in all degree of movement’s coordination level, i.e. in spite of their professional high-level; they are varied in the way of mastering movement.

To the 70th anniversary of Sergey Dmitrievich Smirnov.

The article presents the research of narrative construction of life experience of the person in the process of psychological help. The research is based on a constructive method of analysis using meaning-narrative approach. The research shows that the narrative work of the person (NWP) in the process of psychological help is transferred to the real life situation — and this is the post-narrative, the real work that leads to the most intensive changes in the person. Transferred NWP determines human’s behavior in real life situations in accordance with the motivational tendencies found out during the analysis of narratives.

To the 70th anniversary of Tatiana Vasilievna Akhutina.

To the memory of Evgeniy Nikolaevich Sokolov (1920—2008).

The article covers the problems of personal identity formation, identity transformations, special focus of the work is the methodological basis of personal identity formation research of adolescents, their “moving into adulthood” in the situation of social-economic instability and crisis. Personal identity formation is described as phenomenon in its transformations. As criteria for defining identity in adolescents we use stability of self-conceptions in time and readiness to make independent decisions in life. Thus different combinations of various levels of stability and readiness to make decisions will determine identity typology.

Moscow Winter Psychological School(WPS) of students, post-graduate students and young scientists “Psychology of social problems: Challenges of the XXI century”.

To the 80th anniversary of Nina Gavrilovna Salmina.

The article is focused on psychic as a work and the psychological help as a phenomenon of care — the work of personality. In order to lighting the points of discussions on interaction between psychological theory and practice, the author analyses the variety of scientific views ant thoughts: A. Bergson L.S. Vygotsky, E. Gusserl, A.N. Leontiev, S.L. Rubinstein, M. Heidegger et al. In this work the idea of double transition: psychology to life and the life to psychology is suggested. This concept also conditions concepts of doubled horizon: immanent psychological and transcendent psychological. In that context the theory of temporal work of personality is developed to show the psychology of psychological help with its methodology, theory, psych technology, education, ethics, and way of life.