The review of the psychology provides a large picture of various empiric facts descriptions, observations and self-observations.

The variety of the experimental materials, the mountains of knowledge about the definite parts of the psychical reality, which are surrounded with the sees of statistic calculations and methods of description.

Great number of institutes, centres, laboratories, societies and separate scientists study successfully the various aspects of the psychics in all its possible realizations.

Psychologists, unified by a lot of schools, scientific branches, programs are good and productive in their descriptions of different and countless aspects of the psychical phenomena and they often find by that once more that this is only one new shade of a well-known banality in the psychical reality.

Great number of productive theories, which cover the Psychical from different sides, is the evidence of the modern psychological science successes. Thorough consideration with deep penetration into the wild woods of any a little bit complicated problem with many variables, provides new knowledge and leads the mankind to the new level of self-understanding.

The number of such theories increases and it will increase because the Universum of the psychical is borderless. And there will always be unresearched areas and will appear the necessity of new theories for their adequate description and explanation. However, the psychological theories that exist now (their number has reached 50 and continue increasing) are born nearly every year.

Every theory taken separately can be called the relativity theory, because they can be considered as made in terms of generalization of the personal answer of their creator and their life in the psychology, as generalization of the personal individual intercourse with the psychological reality in the limited area of a piece, which is cut from the subject of psychology. It is well-known "anatomical pathology" approach: to cut a piece (as from a dish during a dinner) of the psychological reality and then to begin its consideration, to find some relative wide regularities in a very romantic way of generalization over the whole psychics and to call it as a theory.

There are more than 50 such theories. At the same time, the psychology needs laws which transpierce cover all possible connections in the psychical phenomena, in the very general laws for a wide circle of phenomena, in the laws that take place always and everywhere, whatever happens in the psychological reality.

The necessity of the theoretical psychology

Psychology is one of the most compex (and so one of the most interesting) branches of the human cognition. Its complicity can be underestimated. Let me recall you about E.Kant, who stated that in every separate natural science there is as much of real science as of mathematics. Psychology can aim at mathematical description of its subject. At the same time: "Should we ever gather the facts of any more or less vast area of knowledge together, we could notice at once that these facts can be ordered. Such ordering we can reach each time with the help of a kind of notions frame, which is raised so that each concrete object of this knowledge area would correspond a notion from this frame, and every fact from this knowledge area would correspond a logical connection between the notions. Such notions frame is nothing else but theory of this knowledge area." (D.Hilbert). When we observe the psychology as a branch of human cognition we have to state the ripe necessity of the theoretical psychology.

A. Pestov, Mart 2000

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