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The Head of the Department

V.K. Kalin, professor, doctor of psychological science
Phone: +38 (0652) 23-21-03
E-mail:kalin@tnu.crimea.ua

History

The Department of Psychology was formed in 1920. The first head was B. I. Vorotynskiy, then √ P. E. Leikfeld, who made a number of researches in the field of experimental psychology and dialect logics, he made researches of cognitive processes, memory, attention, etc. During the same period the experimental laboratory was organized, which by the end of 1920s had been equipped with a plenty of devices, at that time produced in Leningrad under supervision of the known psychologist in the country - professor A. P. Nechaev. These devices helped conduct researches similar to those conducted in V. Vundt's Leipzig laboratory. During occupation of Crimea by fascists the laboratory was plundered.

In 1930s, the head of the department was a well-known psychologist professor V. M. Belous. The department had a special library. Some books were saved - now they are in the category of rare books.

During evacuation of the institute the acting head was professor V. M. Borovsky - the large expert in the area of zoopsychology. His basic work is "Psychological activity of animals". In the large number of researches V. M. Borovsky and his co-workers studied influence of various stimuli on formation of animals skills. From 1944 to 1946 the chair of psychology was headed by professor N. J. Vojtonis, the outstanding representative of comparative-genetic psychology. N. J. Vojtonis processed the scientific material collected by him earlier and finished the monography "Prehistory of intelligence" -- the work that obtained the world recognition. In 1946-1951 significant researches in the field of psychology were conducted by assistant professor A. G. Kovalev, subsequently the doctor of psychological sciences, working at the Leningrad University who headed the department after N. J. Vojtonisa's death. In Crimea, he investigated problems of characterology, pedagogical psychology. These very years and later here worked assistant professor A. I. Chukhin who published the works on research of attention and memory. His book for schoolchildren "Malyutka" was a great success and sustained many editions in the big circulation. From 1960s and before the death (1985) the doctor of psychological sciences, professor B. I. Dodonov -- the graduate of the Crimean pedagogical institute -- worked at the department. His contribution to world psychology is connected to the concept of emotional orientation of the person created by him. Two monographies of B. I. Dodonov -- "Emotion as value" and "In the world of emotions" gained the vast recognition. From the beginning of the 1960s the department of psychology merged with faculty of the pedagogics headed at that time by assistant professor I. A. Fursenko. In 1967 the department of psychology again obtained independence. From 1967 to 1978 assistant professor V. V. Mironenko was its head. Since 1978 professor V. K. Kalin has been the Head of the department.

In 1990 the department began preparation of students of new specialty - school psychologists √ organizers of psychological service at school. In 1993 at the Simferopol state university the branch of psychology was opened. The department of psychology now is the center of scientific researches on psychology in the south of Ùkraine. Scientists of the department have brought in the feasible contribution in development of Ukrainian psychology. This progress is especially obvious in its applied branches.

Disciplines and Courses

• General psychology. Methodology of psychology. Psychology of labor (V. K. Kalin, professor)
• Clynical psychology. Correction of mental development. General psychology. Age Psychology. (I. V. Zyabkina, assistant professor)
• History of psychology, psychology of the person, psychological consultation and psychotherapy, bases of linguistic psychotherapy (N. F. Kalina, assistant professor)
• Social psychology. Psychodiagnostics (K. V. Korostelina, assistant professor)
• Experimental psychology. The automated measurements in psychology and psychophysiology. Psychophysiology (V. B. Pavlenko, assistant professor)
• Political psychology. Pedagogical psychology. Psychological service in education. Ethnopsychology. Bases of sexology (E. V. Cherny, assistant professor)
• General psychology. Age and pedagogical psychology. Bases of psychology and pedagogics. Age psychology (L. L. Puchkova, assistant)
• Mathematical methods in psychology. Bases of psychological training. Pedagogical psychology. Bases of pedagogics and psychology. Age psychology (V. R. Dorozhkin, assistant)
• ═Age psychology. Age and pedagogical psychology. General psychology (D.I. Ivanov, assistant)
• Psychology of the person. Psychology of family relations (V. I. Siljaeva, assistant)
• General psychology. Methodological bases of psychology (E. P. Kolesnikov, assistant)
• Computer means in psychodiagnostics. General psychology. Bases of psychology (V. I. Kolesnikova, assistant)
• History of psychology. Psychology of religion (R. P. Vlasenko, assistant)
• General psychology. Psychology and ethics of business dialogue. Psychology of interpersonal relations. Differential psychology (Yu. A. Vlasenko, assistant)
• Experimental psychology. Psychophysiology (I. N. Konareva, assistant)
• Social psychology. Psychodiagnostics (N. I. Mishchenko, assistant)
• Psychological bases of vocational guidance. General psychology (M. I. Sergienko, assistant)
• General psychology. Age psychology (T. N. Danilov, assistant)
• Psychodiagnostics. Psychology of sports. General psychology (A. V. Starovojtov, assistant)
• Psychology of management. Psychology of labor (A. N. Frantsev, assistant)

Education

Teachers of the department have developed 29 author's special courses and seminars. The basic training courses: general psychology, age psychology, pedagogical psychology, psychology of the person, history of psychology, experimental psychology, methodological bases of psychology, the psychophysiology, the automated measurements in psychophysiology, psychodiagnostics, social psychology, psychology of management, psychology of work, ethnopsychology, clinical psychology, correction of mental development of the child, psychotherapy and bases of consultation, a basis of psychiatry, linguistic psychotherapy, bases of psychological training, legal psychology, psychology of sports, psychology of religion, conflictology, mathematical methods in psychology, mathematical modeling in psychology, computer psychodiagnostics, psychological bases of vocational guidance, psychology of family relations. Computer technologies and distant training are introduced in the educational process at the department.

Scientific Work

Postgraduate study works at the faculty. Directions of research work : psychological features of self-organizing of life, functional structure of social intelligence, innovative potential of the person, psychology of management, psychoanalysis, linguistic psychotherapy, psychological aspects of conflictology, ethnopsychological problems and psychological aspects of immigration, etc. The department of psychology cooperates with Institute of social and political psychology of NPA of Ukraine (Kyiv), Institute of psychology named after G. S. Kostyuk (Kyiv), South Ukrainian centre of science of NPA of Ukraine (Odessa), КNU named after T. Shevchenko (Kyiv), Association of Fund Freudian fields (Paris), Association of psychiatrists and psychotherapists of Crimea (Simferopol), Moscow city psychological-pedagogical Institute (faculty of psychological consultation and psychotherapy), Institute of analysis and resolution of conflicts of J. Mason University (USA).