Problems in defining the concept of "psychics"

Abstract

Different approaches towards one of main psychological questions “Menatility, what is it" are scrutinized in this article. The authors show, that recognition of the mentality to be non-material and unphysiologic formation, as well as its reduction to physiologi­cal processes, should be considered as deadlock directions of the psychological research. They pay attention to purposefulness of mentality definition as particular brain attribute, which doesn't provide the reflection of the objective reality, existing at present or which existed in the past, but the construction of the closest future, which has never been before and which doesn't exist at the moment. The authors give the scheme, illustrating the gist of the idea, forming the basis of this definition of mentality. The model of functioning of “complicated" neurophysiologic processes with psychological attributes, called “mentality" is suggested.