A REGIONAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE BULGARIAN PSYCHOLOGY’S HISTORY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the methodological problems of the history of psychology and the conclusions of its study in Bulgaria. It shows the innovative character of the application of the regional approach to the study of the native history of psychological science, which allows to reveal the contribution of scientists who worked and lived in different towns and villages of the Bulgarian countryside.

 The object of the study is related to the discovery of the possibilities of the regional approach for optimizing research in the field of the native history of psychology. For the first time the methodology „geography of prominent Bulgarians” by Svetlin Kiradjiev (1993) was adapted and used to this problem. The results were reported on the leading indicator „birthplace” of Bulgarian scientists who worked in the field of psychology in the period between 1878 and 1945. Thus, the traditional biographical approach in historical-psychological research was tied to the socio-cultural preconditions for the formation of the personality of individual scientists, reported at the regional and national level, in a certain historical-chronological context.

The formulated conclusions visualize the organization of psychological science and the peculiarities of the scientific subject during the research period, according to such characteristics as „metropolitan” - „provincial” scientific environment, general and applied psychological research, prerequisites and final results of the scientific activity of psychologists.