Platonov Psychologist Biography

Message 3 O. Petryuk, P. Petryuk, L. Platonov dynasty and problems of psychiatric neuronauk: Professor Konstantin Konstantinovich Platonov-an outstanding Russian experimenter, psychologist, neuropathologist and former Saburyanin. Only man is great on Earth, only the mind V. Hamilton Konstantin Konstantinovich Platonov is great in man-Konstantin Konstantinovich Platonov--the famous Russian experimenter scientist, neuropathologist, psychologist, biologist, doctor of medical sciences, doctor of psychological sciences, professor, Honored Worker of Science of the RSFSR, at the same time a short time worked at the Saburovaya Dacha.

Former Saburyan. Konstantin Konstantinovich is known as a research scientist, a theoretic psychologist and a practitioner psychologist who stood at the origins of the Russian psychological science of the Soviet period and devoted, in essence, all his multifaceted vital activity. He made a significant contribution to the development of general and social psychology, labor psychology, military and medical psychology, the history of psychology.

The author of a number of psychological concepts and at the same time a wonderful popularizer of psychology, he possessed a great gift to speak simply about very complex and specific scientific problems. Many of those who subsequently connected their fate with psychology were first learned about this science from K. Platonov’s book “Entertaining Psychology” written by him in the hospital during the rehabilitation period after a stroke.

Konstantin Konstantinovich also treated Extraordinary attention, high responsibility and selfless recovery to the function that he performed until the very last days of his life - to be a mentor, a teacher of young scientists [1, 2]. Platonov argued that “from the first steps of his mental activity he set himself two parallel tasks: to work for science and write for the people, Comrade Platonov was born on June 7 in the city of Kharkov in a family of hereditary doctors.

His grandfather, Ivan Yakovlevich Platonov, is a well-known domestic psychiatrist, one of those exertion doctors who contributed to the assertion of a new approach to the treatment of neuropsychic diseases, the formation of a humane attitude to a person, amazed by this serious illness. Father, Konstantin Ivanovich-a major neuropathologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, doctor of medical sciences, professor who worked since the years in St.

Petersburg in the neuropsychiatric clinic of the Military Medical Academy under the leadership of V. Bekhterev, subsequently, a well-known clinician doctor and teacher of a great contribution to the development and use of methods in the clinic of neurosa methods suggestions and hypnosis. A great influence on the formation of the personality of the scientist was exerted by his mother - Vera Alexandrovna Lebedeva, a highly educated, cultural person, a professional teacher.

Having spent a childhood surrounded by patients, who was faced with human misfortune and suffered heavy losses by K. Platonov, a mother died early, who experienced the beneficial influence of relatives, Konstantin Konstantinovich deeply absorbed and forever absorbed a steady interest in knowing people and their problems [2, 3]. Since the year, he worked at the Ukrainian Psychoneurological Institute on the problems of the psychology of personality, labor and social psychology.

In the year he conducted research on railway professions at the Leningrad Institute of Brain. From the years - the head of the psychophysiological laboratories, first of the Gorky Automobile Plant, and later on the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. From the year he was engaged in the problems of aviation psychology. During the Second World War, the Air Army reached Berlin.

In the year, he began to give a course of lectures on labor psychology at the Department of Psychology of Moscow State University - he conducted innovative research in the field of labor psychology. He developed new methods of psychological analysis of the pilot’s activities, in particular, he created a laboratory aircraft. The life strategy of Konstantin Konstantinovich was the desire to always be where serious matters began, where new and difficult tasks were set and solved, where bold, faithful to civic duty were required.

It was in these conditions and in these historical moments that his inquisitive mind and indomitable energy received their most complete realization. Incredible performance, innovative spirit, fearlessness in setting new tasks and ways to solve them - this is what was most distinguished by K. Platonov - a scientist and man. It is impossible not to pay attention to the fact that in the personal and scientific fate of Konstantin Konstantinovich, as in a drop of water, the whole history of domestic psychology with its problems and search at all stages of its development was reflected.

And this story was not easy, and scientific work was not easy. Serious achievements, which put forward domestic psychological science into the fairway of world psychology, were combined with considerable mistakes: periods of rapid development were replaced by times of retreat, stagnation, and reduction of research in its individual industries. The development of psychology reflected those general social difficulties through which the whole country went through, our science.What kind of upsdays did not have to survive those scientists who connected their life and scientific fate with psychology: B.

Ananyev, L. Vygotsky, A. Leontyev, V. Myasishchev, S. Rubinstein, D. Utklodze and many others. Among them-organizers and creators of Russian psychological science of the 20th century-K., especially in recent years of work, Konstantin Konstantinovich, has paid the history of domestic psychology, constantly emphasized the importance of historical and psychological developments. In the year, while still a summer teenager, Konstantin Konstantinovich begins to work as a collector at the Institute for the spread of natural science Ira in Ira was the first folk lecture hall, created on the basis of a local history museum, where lectures on atheism and local history were read for the population.

In the year, K. Platonov is elected by the secretary of the reign of Ira and approved by the lecturer. It should be noted that throughout his life, K. Platonov actively participated in lecture propaganda, was a member of the reign of the All -Union Society “Knowledge”, and high responsibility was the preparation of each lecture. Here, in Ira, he takes his first steps in science, his interests are formed here, here he acquires a significant amount of knowledge in the field of natural science, as well as the skills necessary for the scientist-forecaster.

The result of K. Platonov’s first scientific samples was his “brief determinant of the amphibians and reptiles of Ukraine” - a book published in Kharkov in the year, which was a rather systematic textbook for students of pedagogical universities. But the author of this book was only 20 years old at that time. He himself loved his first scientific work, proudly showed him to his friends and colleagues.

Konstantin Konstantinovich considered himself a happy person, not only because he had been doing what he loved for decades, but also because he met or worked with wonderful people on his life path. Among his acquaintances is the poet and artist M. Voloshin, the artist-Denist V. Durov, herpetologist A., a certain influence on K. Platonov also had meetings with other famous Soviet natural scientists.

Among them N. Koltsov is a Soviet geneticist, who defended the idea of ​​the genetic conditioning of the psychosomatic and behavioral properties of animals, M. Zavadovsky-the famous geneticist, L. Vasiliev-head of the neurophysiology laboratory of the Institute of the Brain and a specialist in the field of parabiosis, the author of the series of popular and scientific works on suggestion problems, domestic polar experts G.

Ushakov, O. Schmidt and others. In Ira, a meeting of K. Platonova with his future wife Galina Nikolaevna, who for the whole life, has become a faithful friend and assistant and shared all his life successes and difficulties for his life. In the year, Konstantin Konstantinovich entered the biological faculty of the Kharkov Institute of Public Education.

However, his active nature demanded a complete return, the search for a socially significant sphere of activity. And such a scientific and practical field at the same time was medicine. Undoubtedly, the influence of parents-doctors, the general humanistic orientation of the individual affected. And in the year he transferred to the first year of the Kharkov Medical Institute.

Later, in the year, already being a certified doctor and working in the field of psychohigie, he graduates from the biological faculty, thus receiving the second higher education. In his student years, K. Platonov simultaneously worked as a freelance junior researcher in the psychophysiological laboratory of the Ukrainian Psychoneurological Institute, headed by Professor Z.

Here he makes the first attempt to psychophysiological research, including persons who are under investigation with Z. Chuchev, V. Lavrova, S. Thus, from the very first steps, they were clearly identified and declared deeply felt interests in the field of studying the natural science foundations of the psyche and consciousness. It is important to note that the meeting with Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, a well-known Russian psychiatrist, scientist-neuropathologist, held in the house of his father Konstantin Konstantinovich, had a significant impact on the choice of his life path.

This meeting of representatives of two generations at the junction of two eras in the history of Russian psychology is deeply symbolic. K. Platonov often and very warmly spoke about her, he writes about this in his memoirs [2]. And no accident: after all, a lot of important events in the history of Russian psychology are associated with the name of V. Bekhterev. He was the organizer of the first psychophysiological laboratory in our country, created in the year in Kazan, and the St.

Petersburg Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, opened in the year. Under the leadership of V. Bekhterev, a neuropsychiatric Institute, the Institute of Brain and Mental Activities, the Psychoneurological Academy, the Kazan Institute of Notes, the State Laboratory for Labor Studies, organize a number of scientific journals, etc. are created. The scientific merits of V.Bekhtereva in different sectors of physiology, morphology, anatomy and psychology, in the development of a number of leading directions and problems of psychological science, its fundamental principles and approaches.

Finally, V. Bekhterev brought up a galaxy of scientists who glorified Russian science, so the conversation with such a person, a brilliant forecaster, could not help but leave an indelible trace of K. Platonov [2]. In the year, he works in the Psychotechnical Laboratory of the South Railway, then, having moved to Leningrad, at the Institute of the Brain on the problems of neurophysiology, and after graduating from the Leningrad Institute of Medical Knowledge, he goes to distribute to work as a doctor in Transbaikalia.