PRINCIPLES OF THEORY OF MENTAL HIERARCHY: ON CORRELATION OF
UNIVERSAL AND UNIQUE IN HUMAN BEING’S PSYCHE
A. V. Libin
PhD, department of medicine and rehabilitation, Georgetown University; director of training
programs, Research Center of Neurosciences; Institute Medstar and National rehabilitation
hospital, Washington, USA
The article represents the conceptual integration of authors’ approaches and is a logic
continuation of theoretical and experimental analysis of the nature of psychic processes carried
out for more than
fifty years (1949-2001) by L.M. Vekker and fifteen-years cycle of
methodological researches in the sphere of general and differential psychology conducting by
A.V. Libin. Both approaches to the nature of man’s psyche and personality as its central
formation study are synthesized in the author’s system. Principles of mental hierarchy
are
examined in the work in the context of comparative analysis of universal - in the form of
physical laws of live systems functioning
and unique – manifesting itself in the specific
character of nature - and - social organization of psychic processes as quite particular class of
objective phenomena.
Key words: mental representation, neurodynamics of image, tactile- kinesthetic modality,
principles of theory mental hierarchy, mental space-time, isomorphism scale.