The status of the category of self-development in the modern domestic psychology (by the materials of the Vth Congress of the RPS)

Abstract

The article focuses on the status of the attention of the professional psychological
community to the category of self-development through a prism of statements of participants
of Vth Congress of the RPS. Problem fields and methodological solutions in which
the self-development category is used are reconstructed. Frequency analysis of using psychological
concepts of “self” by the authors of the materials of the congress is conducted.
Frequency analysis of using psychological concepts of “self-” by the authors of the materials
of the congress is conducted. “Self-development” is discussed as sign methodological
concept, indicating by itself a number of actual methodological turns in various areas of a
psychological science. Postnonclassical, anthropological turns, turn to maturity psychology,
and also formation of pedagogy of self-development as special area of a pedagogical
science are allocated. Their refractions in the materials given by authors of congress are
considered.