Science, Ideology and Practice in Post-Soviet Psychology: An Attempt of Introspection

The purpose of this article is to analyze the dynamics of the relationship between psychological science and practice in post-Soviet psychology, taking into account both global and local trends and influences. In the process of considering the stages of approaching psychology to solving applied problems and problems of psychological practice proper, special attention is paid to the problem of the relationship between the natural-scientific and socio-philosophical aspects of the existence of modern psychology. The article emphasizes the position that, having separated from philosophy almost 140 years ago, the current psychological science turned out to be entangled in various ideologies - from panpsychologization and antipsychiatry to the ideology of constructivism. In conclusion, it is stated that the narcissistic attempts of modern psychological practice to reduce the polysyllabic phenomenology of real human problems, about which people turn to a psychologist, exclusively to their mental manifestations - there is no more, no less, a substitution of the true meanings of the profession. In place of defending the interests of the patient (client), modern psychology, put their own interests, including purely shop and commercial. The article defends the idea that the true solution to the problem of the development of modern psychological practice lies in the synthesis of the humanistic potential of psychology with a fundamental natural scientific basis, and not in the imposition of far-fetched ideological schemes, shamefacedly referred to as the “methodology of constructivism”.

Theological Origins of the KYIV Psychological School