Psychology in the context of the “Pavlovian” session and its consequences

The authors continue the historical-psychological study of an important event for Soviet scientists (and psychologists), which left a long and deep mark – the joint scientific session of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, dedicated to the problems of the physiological teaching of Academician I.P. Pavlov (June 28 – July 4, 1950), which in 2025 will celebrate its 75th anniversary. Based on the published verbatim report, the authors have already written about what happened at the session, what the leading psychologists of the country reported on, and how psychologists tried to understand the results of the “Pavlovian” session. This article focuses on the “related” in time consequences in psychology, i.e. immediately after the session and before 1955, when the 3rd All-Russian Conference on Psychology was being prepared. The authors showed the dynamics of the discussion on the issues of the relationship between the physiology of higher nervous activity and psychology, who was the spokesman for the general line of the party in psychology, what main issues of science were emphasized. This study is not finished, it has quite clear prospects, noted by the Conference on philosophical issues of the physiology of higher nervous activity and psychology in 1962.