The starting point of the article is the investigation of paradigmatic evolution of the conceptualization of schizophrenia symptoms in transcultural psychiatry on the basis of comparative analysis. Within the research the following methods were applied: cultural and logical studies, the methods of comparative analysis and hermeneutic reconstruction. As a research outcome, we explicated cultural, ethnic, and historical conditioning of the concept «schizophrenia». Besides, we represented a philosophical «hermeneutic model» of the origin of the disease called schizophrenia, which is heuristic for the conceptual formation of a new image of pathology. The abovementioned prerequisites provide for enriching the concept of «schizophrenia» by understanding hallucinogenic activity and various types of mystical unconscious knowledge in addition to ethnic, philosophical, anthropological, and sociocultural issues. The research novelty of the article is in the dialectical reconstruction of different cultural and ethnic approaches to the analysis of schizophrenia, which allowed us to find a multifaceted solution of the problem of its ‘presuppositiveness’.

A theoretical analysis of the features of dreams in people who have suffered a stroke is presented in the ar­ticle. The content of dreams may indicate the presence of somatic abnormalities, but in a distorted, symbolic form. In stroke, sleep disorders are a negative predictor of the effectiveness of the rehabili­tation stage. The results of empirical study of the characteristics of dreams in stroke patients (10 men, 10 women aged 21 to 65, average age-47.2) and in conditionally healthy people (7 men, 13 women aged 28 to 56, average age - 46.6) showed that the quality of sleep is worse in the group with somatic disorders in comparison with conditionally healthy people, and it also revealed differences in the content of dreams. In the dreams of people with somatic disorders, the desire to change their physical or mental state is manifested.

A tolerant attitude towards corruption is considered in connection with the norms of family morality, aimed primarily at maintaining the well-being of loved ones and relatives. Based on the obtained em­pirical data, it is argued that the norms of family morality compel the closest relatives of a corrupt offi­cial not to protest against illegal income and not to condemn their corrupt relative for his or her illegal activities. Family morality in this situation is opposed to public morality, aimed at the common good and the observance of laws. It is proposed to consider the conflict of the society norms and family norms as necessary in all those situations where the interests of a large social group (society) do not coincide with the interests of a small social group (family) included in it.

This article is devoted to the problem of attitude towards future motherhood at a young age, since the spec­ificity of emotional-personal and value-sense characteristics may act as a predictor of the formation of negative attitudes towards procreation. As a result of the survey of 51 adolescent females, it was revealed that the students with formed reproductive orientation are characterized by a tendency to neurotic reactions to external circumstances. This group showed the most formed value orientations for the future with an understanding of the desired picture of life. But for the female students with identified repro­ductive passivity, the neurotic index does not exceed the normative corridor, and their value orientations are focused on inner self.

In the present study the psychometric characteristics of three questionnaires for the measurement of locus of control (performed in an online format) were studied. The Spearman–Brown coefficient for the J. Rotter questionnaire was 0.74 (104 respondents), for the LSC scales of E. F. Bazhin—from 0.35 to 0.83 (524 respondents), and for the H. Levenson scales—from 0.67 to 0.81 (134 respondents). The study of the relationship between the scales and internal structure of the items of multidimensional questionnaires revealed a number of issues. Factor analysis did not allow us to unambiguously confirm the theoretically postulated structure of the H. Levenson IPC and E. F. Bazhin questionnaires. While analyzing the factors, an effect related to the specifics of the response to the items formulated in the ‘external’ and ‘internal’ forms was observed. The study of correlations for the scale of general internality with subjective well-being, various personal motivations, and time perspective showed the expected results.

The urgency of the problem of Internet addiction today is undeniable, the significance of this problem has especially increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article presents the results of adaptation of the questionnaire “The Instagram Addiction Scale” (TIAS) for diagnosing the level of dependence on the social network Instagram* in a Russian-speaking sample (n = 416). The psychometric characteristics of the Russian-language version of the questionnaire were assessed: reliability by internal consistency, construct validity and factor structure. According to the results of adaptation, the TIAS questionnaire has good psychometric indicators.

The article presents the psychometric characteristics of the Russian-language version of the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24), including internal consistency, validity and factor structure.

The work “Psychology of Children’s Caprices” by famous Russian psychoanalyst Moisei Volfovich Wulff (1878–1971) was published in 1929 in Odessa, after the author’s emigration to Germany (1927). It includes two parts: “Psychology of Children’s Caprices” itself and “Endogenous Sources of Caprices”.