[Psychology of relations as a theoretical concept of medical psychology and psychotherapy].

This paper presents the theoretical concept of the "psychology of relations" (A.F. Lasurski, V.N. Myasistchev) which forms the basis for studying the personality of a patient and for finding a suitable treatment of nervous and mental disorders by psychological methods. The author shows that there is theoretical agreement between the psychology of relations and the philosophy of dialetical materialism and Pavlov's theory of conditioned reflexes. Also discussed in this paper is the concept's relation to clinical psycho-neurology, its orientation toward considering personality as a system, as well as the recognition of the primacy of the conscious over the unconscious. Prospects for an evolutional and ontogenetic approach to an analysis of the system of relations and the need for elaborating systematized work programs determined by the investigative goal to be achieved are also considered by the author in his present paper.