Böcker i Monographs in Psychology-serien

In recent years psychology has considerably expanded and en riched its relations with medical practice, first and foremost with psychiatry. Experimental abnormal psychology has been no less important for the theoretical problems of psychology and psychiatry.

According to Pavlov, the most important of these is that system com prising central nervous system properties, which determine the generation of excitatory and inhibitory processes in the structures of the central nervous system.

. 11 Chapter II The Problem of Inner Speech in Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 . . . . . Verbal Interference Methods in the Study of Inner Speech . . . . 52 .

Contrary to popular opinion, contemporary psychology in the USSR is far from being monolithic. It is true that the development of Soviet psychology does have characteristic features which distinguish it from the development of Western (and particularly Anglo-American) psychology.