The  COVID-19  pandemic  has  put  humanity  in  conditions  of  an  enormous  global  experiment  which would have been impossible to conduct in a laboratory. Humanity as a whole and each person individually have found themselves in a situation of uncertainty concerning the level of threat, its duration, ways 
to deal with it (i.e., protection, prevention and treatment), prospects etc. The whole world has been following the situation with the pandemic intently since the very outbreak while trying to estimate the risks of the infection and the spread of the virus. The said situation has also awoken unprecedented interest in the  scientific  community.  Virologists,  biologists,  physicians,  sociologists,  psychologists,  economists, philosophers were in the extensive list of specialists who presented the research findings on different aspects of the pandemic during its first months. 
The goal of this review is to consider the main topical areas of the publications in order to identify the most important problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the possible strategies and ways to solve these problems. 
It is shown that the first reactions to the threat (namely, an increase in the level of anxiety, stress reactions, depressive states, and a decrease in the level of subjective well-being) are connected with the uncertainty of the situation and the lack of guidance on developing relevant behavioral strategies. 
The data on the influence of quarantine measures on the psychological state of affected people are presented. The role of the media, the responsibility and possible strategies of the authorities are shown. 
The state and reactions to the pandemic of the most vulnerable groups of the population are analyzed. 
The guidelines for effective measures of the authorities in the current situation are indicated. Possible strategies and resources for the most effective solution of the problems that have arisen or have manifested themselves during the pandemic are identified. 

Influence of getting over a new coronavirus infection on the time perspective is considered. The sample included 111 respondents, 60 of which had coronavirus infection (recovery no later than 3 weeks ago), 51  –  had  no  coronavirus-19  and  to  the  last  two  months  had  no  sharp  diseases.  The  Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) and the Semantic Time Differential (L. I. Wasserman, E. A. Trifonova, K. R. Chervinskaya) were used. It is shown that the recovered COVID-19 are inclined to more negative past perspective, than conditionally healthy respondents, have more fatalistic present  perspective and less focused on the future and see him more negative. Least the disease affected present perspective. 

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unexpected event for mankind, as a result of which people experienced a prolonged situation of uncertainty, self-isolation and faced a number of unique restrictive measures. Researchers note a deterioration of the psychological health of population during the pandemic. In this case, a special role is played by media, which activity leads to infodemic and aggravation of negative psychological effects among the population.

This study focuses on the activity of Russian media during the COVID-19 epidemic through the lens of G. Bateson’s concept. The dynamics of the publication activity of Russian media in the first and second wave of the spread of coronavirus in relation to the dynamics of the epidemic is analyzed. In addition to this, news content and discourse were studied.

The first wave of the epidemic was significantly higher in media coverage than the second, although in terms of scale, the second wave of COVID-19 was more devastating. It was revealed that both state and independent media decrease their activity as the epidemic in Moscow declines. Thus, in the summer of 2020 in regions with an increasing number of newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19, the audience receives a double bind: “the epidemic does not deserve the former attention, although the risk of infection increases”.

State media broadcast a calming discourse, though restrictive measures are unprecedented, especially in the first wave of the epidemic. Here we face another double bind: “you shouldn’t be afraid of COVID-19, but you can’t leave home unnecessarily and you have to change your lifestyle and adapt to the situation”. Double binds from media are considered regarding masks, gloves, necessary quarantine measures, teleworking, online study, statistics, actions in case of infection, vaccination, etc.

Prolonged exposure in the set of media double binds regarding COVID-19 leads to various manifestations of schizophrenic symptoms. In the first wave of the epidemic hebephrenic manifestations are noticeable: messages are ridiculed without taking into account the context; a specific language is created. Another way is a spread of conspiracy theories. The last option is an escape from the topic, which is noticeable when comparing the publication activity, interest and emotional reaction of the media sphere during the first and second wave. The obtained results mean the necessity of reflection on the work of media in potential similar periods in the future. This leads to a dilemma between liberty and security.

The article is the text of the speech of the Russian psychiatrist Ardalion A. Tokarsky (1859–1901), delivered at the fourth annual meeting of the Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at the Imperial Moscow University, October 24, 1893. 

First published in the journal “Issues of Philosophy and Psychology” (1893. No. 20. P. 203–223). The text is brought into line with modern spelling and punctuation.

Social efforts are aimed at minimizing the forms of aggression that, in a specific cultural and historical context, have been attributed to deliberate violations of the norms of society. Nevertheless, along with them, there have always been sanctioned and encouraged forms of violence in society, which have remained for a long time without the attention of researchers. Legalized aggression is a sanctioned and encouraged form of violence manifested in various spheres of life. The purpose of this article is to con-sider the relationship between the features of aggressive behavior and basic beliefs with the tendency to legitimized aggression among students of different courses of study. It was obtained that the most common way of expressing aggression is verbal aggression. It was revealed that people legitimizing aggression in different spheres of life are characterized by the presence of a basic belief about the ill will of the surrounding world, in addition, people inclined to legitimize aggression will be hostile to others and resort to aggression in the process of communication.

Due to the fact that a person has the opportunity to make a decision in relation to his own life, the problem of suicide is the most relevant. Making such a decision, a person makes a conscious and deliberate attempt to take his own life. In this case, for a person, life is meaningless, priceless and needless. Currently, the growth in the number of suicides is only increasing, and the problem of suicide is one of the main ones in existential psychology. In addition, any person is able to realize the finiteness of his existence, to feel the presence of a vague, hidden fear of something unknown, before death itself, which makes the topic of death one of the most important, that given of human existence. This article investigates existential motivation and fear of death in relation to suicidal attempts and suicidal thoughts.

The results of a study of oncogynecological patients with low quality of life indicators and high levels of stress and situational anxiety are presented. We have also shown that art therapy methods have a positive effect on cancer patients, reducing the level of stress and anxiety, as well as improving the quality of life.

The lack of effective psychometric instruments available for both health-care professionals and re-searchers seems to be one of the issues complicating the already unsatisfactory situation with clinical diagnostics of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) in Russia. This article is devoted to the Russian adaptation (namely, assessment of the psychometric properties and evaluation of the factor structure) of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), a brief, self-administered instrument measuring autistic traits in adults with normal intelligence. Participants of the current study included adults with high probability of having ASD (N = 105) and neurotypical adults (N = 630). Internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the total AQ score were good, but in case of the AQ subscales they varied from good to questionable. Criterion and construct validity were high. The results of the factor analysis do not support the correlated 5-factor structure suggested by the developers of the AQ, and thus the further research is needed.