An Outstanding Psychologist Between the Past and the Future (On the 70th Anniversary of V.N. Druzhinin)

The article is dedicated to the anniversary of the outstanding Russian psychologist V.N. Druzhinin (1955–2001). The contribution of the scientist to various fields of psychological science is noted, it is shown that the ideas expressed have been developed in modern Russian psychology. The article discusses the style of scientific creativity of V.N. Druzhinin, the qualities of the researcher that allowed him to achieve impressive results. It is noted that the most important are studies devoted to psychodiagnostics, substantiation of the resource approach to understanding the nature of intelligence, development of the concept of the nature of creative abilities, description of options for individual life in terms of human existential experiences and individual concepts of their own lives, research in the field of experimental psychology and family psychology. At present, V.N. Druzhinin’s developments are important, which can be qualified as the author’s philosophy of psychology. A sketch of the philosophy of psychology outlined in the scientist’s works is proposed. It is noted that the works published by the scientist contain a significant number of ideas that have not been developed in detail. The article records that the work begun by V.N. Druzhinin and his associates on the restructuring of the system of psychological knowledge and psychological education was not completed due to his tragic and untimely death.