This study aims to focuses on the problem of access to other minds within phenomenological psychotherapy. The problem is that the Other is at the same time a phenomenon that is constituted by my consciousness and a transcendental subject located in objective reality. The author begins with the materials of the 1925 summer course of lectures given by Husserl in Freiburg, which set out the essence of the “new psychology” project. The new psychology should become an alternative to the natural-scientific approach, and should refer to direct individual experience. Therefore, it has intentional life as an object, refusing excessive theorizing about the psychological phenomena. The psychologist reveals the universal pre-experimental structures of consciousness through intuition, working with a priori forms. Empathy (German: Einfüllung) plays an important role in the work of a psychologist and psychotherapist. Husserl developed his concept of empathy through a rethinking of the theory of empathy by T. Lipps and understood it not as a mirror process, but as a projecting assimilation. Functional commonality allows you to create a bridge between the perceiving subject and the one who is perceived. Husserl’s concept of empathy became the basis for developing a number of productive therapeutic approaches. At the end of the article, two examples of such approaches are given: the phenomenological psychiatry of K. Jaspers and the method of subverbal communication of E. Gendelin.

Interest in psychological practices based on formation of mindfulness skill is currently increasing in foreign and Russian research. The objective of this review was to systematize data on mindfulness as a complex psychological phenomenon. Approaches to its definition, its place in the structure of psychological processes, and proposed models are considered.

In this paper, we studied the influence of the features of the ASQ testing procedure on the indicators of consistency of internality scales. The study involved 149 students who completed the ASQ and locus of control questionary . The analysis focused on controlling for two sources of variation in internality estimates. The first source was related to the formulation of the cause, and the second – to its assessment. All responses formulated by the subjects were grouped and then compared in dimensions of internality, stability and globality. As a result, highly significant differences in internality were revealed for all 12 items of the questionnaire, which indicates that the sources of response variability to the greatest extent will affect the subsequent assessment in this parameter. The most acceptable psychometric scores were obtained for the Achievement Success Scale. For other scales of internality of this level, low values of internal consistency were obtained.

The aim of the study was to analyze the psychological characteristics of separation from parents, the subjective experience of loneliness and self-attitude in adolescents with self-damaging behavior. The sample consisted of 108 teenagers from the city of Novosibirsk aged 15 to 18 years with and without self-harm. The tools for collecting material were: the author’s questionnaire; methodology “Scale of causes of self-damaging behavior” N.A. Polish; PSI (Psychological Separation Inventory) methodology adapted by V.P. Dzukaeva and T.Yu. Sadovnikova; D. Russell’s scale of subjective feelings of loneliness (UCLA, version 3) adapted by I. N. Ishmukhametov; methodology “Personal differential”, adapted at the Research Institute. V.M. Bekhterev. As a result, it was found that adolescents with self-damaging behavior had significantly lower indicators of conflict separation with their father and mother and higher indicators of emotional separation with their father. In the self-attitude of these adolescents, there is a feeling of their low value, self-rejection, dependence on external assessments, difficulties with self-regulation and self-control. Also, adolescents with self-harm experience a feeling of loneliness as a state of discomfort against the background of feeling their low value and misunderstanding by others.

In positive psychology, seeing and experiencing beauty is one of the character strengths that indicates the presence of positive mental health and subjective well-being. The article presents the results of a study of the relationship between susceptibility to beauty and the concept of «beauty» among Russian-speaking psychology students, and also built a preliminary field structure of the concept “beauty”. The sample consisted of 62 subjects aged 18 to 54 years (15 men and 47 women). The study used the Method of Free Association and the Engagement with Beauty Scale. The positive relationship was confirmed between the level of susceptibility to inner beauty and the number of associations to the word “beauty” associated with inner beauty. Additionally, positive relationships were found between the level of general susceptibility to beauty and the number of associations per word «beauty» associated with inner beauty, as well as between the level of susceptibility to the beauty of ideas and the number of associations per word “beauty” associated with inner beauty. Additionally, results related to differences between men and women were obtained. Women are more receptive to the beauty of nature and to the inner beauty of a person, while they give more associations for inner beauty than men. In the field structure of the concept «beauty», the core is the association word nature (31); near periphery of the association words love (25), eyes (19), aesthetics (14), art (14), smile (13), life (12), happiness (11), music (11), woman (11), flowers (10), soul (10), harmony (10), kindness (10).

The article suggests to view the image of transformation as an idea, that affects cognitive flexibility (the ability to overcome responses or thinking that have become habitual and adapt to new situations). We may notice, that cultural stereotypes of thinking are partly predetermined by mythology. Myths represent our mind’s view of mental capabilities, the way our conscience interprets unconscious processes. The following describes the images of transformations in ancient Greek and Hindu mythologies as two points of view on psychic processes, letting us notice possibilities and limitations of transformation processes offered by Western and Eastern myths. Transformation is considered a basic task in Jungian theory. Today, the entire world mythology has become accessible due to globalization. The purpose of this work is to consider different versions of the transformation image, making it possible to enrich emotionally significant, archetypal symbols that are used in practice, as well as to think about which symbols and mythological images most accurately represent modern consciousness, today’s reality perception. The signs underlying the image of transformation in Eastern myths are compared with modern empirical data on physiology and psyche. Based on this comparison, it is suggested that modern knowledge on cognitive flexibility is closer to Eastern mythology.

Under the section of “Pages from the History of Psychology”, we present Chapter 7 from the book “Creativity of the Mentally Ill and Its Influence on the Development of Science, Art, and Technology” (1926) written by the renowned Soviet psychiatrist and psychologist Pavel Ivanovich Karpov (1873–1932). Through years of research, P.I. Karpov amassed an extensive collection of poems, drawings, handicrafts, and other works created by individuals with mental illnesses. The book based on the materials from this collection remains relevant to this day as it sheds light on the connection between a person’s mental state and their creative output.