V. S. MERLIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN CONFLICTOLOGY (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF REHABILITATION THERAPY OF SOLDIERS WHO WERE BLINDED AS A RESULT OF MILITARY ACTIONS)

Abstract

The article analyzes the contribution of domestic psychologists to the cause of the Great Victory in the Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The main provisions of the theory of psychological conflicts developed by a large domestic psychologist, founder of the Perm psychological school - V.S. Merlin - are presented. These theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of psychological conflicts were formulated by V.S. Merlin during the Great Patriotic War on the basis of experience with fighters who were blinded as a result of injury - patients of evacuation hospital. In the future, work on the problem of psychological conflicts was continued by him and consisted in the analysis of other types of conflicts. This article shows the specifics of psychological conflicts in blind soldiers and presents the key lines of psychotherapeutic work with psychological conflicts, tested by V.S. Merlin during his work as a scientific consultant at the Restoration Clinic of the Institute of Psychology of Moscow University at Evacuation Hospital in the Sverdlovsk Region. In conclusion, the key lines of development of V.S. Merlin's ideas at the modern stage of the development of conflictology are presented.