The new old paradigm of research on social cognition: a monograph on social psychology written by clinical psychologists through the prism of cultural-historical theory

Abstract

In the review of the monograph «Social Cognition as the Highest Psychic Function and Its Development in Ontogenesis», the relevance of the disclosed subject matter is described, the importance of the book’s publication at the present time, in the context of opposition to the natural and humanitarian paradigms in psychological science and the «revisionist revolution» in proficiency is emphasized. In addition, a meaningful description of each section of the book is given, and the main conclusions obtained by the authors are given.