Cultural Ideas about Astrological Descriptions of Personality and Psychodiagnostics: Similarities and Differences

Student: Shurkhal Andrey

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personality Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This work is an attempt to consider the formation of modern psychotypes, based on ancient ideas about personality types. it also considers such a problem as an attempt to link the scientific psychological causal approach and such an acausal field of knowledge as astrology. This study provides a theoretical overview of the similarities and differences between the causal and acausal methods of reality research, also examines the history of astrology and psychodiagnostics, and analyzes the history of astrology from a holistic position inherent in the acausal view of the world. In addition, this study describes an empirical study that identifies links between psychodiagnostics and astrology.

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