Tendency of Some Psychological Directions Development

This article is devoted to the review of abstracts of the dissertations defended in Russia on three psychological specialties-of psychophysiology, medical psychology and correctional psychology (psychology of blind, deaf and mentally retarded children) in 15 years (1996-2010). 99 abstracts of the dissertations defended in St.-Petersburg, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk are analysed. Theses were analyzed by qualitative criteria (scope of works, a correctness of a formulation of a task, a research objective, a set of variables, final forms of representation of results, processing methods, quality of work) and quantitative (quantity of conclusions, number of examinees, number of headings in the abstract prolog, number of publications, quantity of used techniques). The conclusion is drawn that the subject of theses, generally, corresponds to the problems arising in the Russian society, but there are many shortcomings having “technical” character that doesn’t allow psychology to act in its modern look as the instrument of synthesis of the knowledge accumulated by different sciences about the person.