ALEXEY DOININ

The author’s view on problem of crisis in modern psychology is stated. Widespread among Russian psychologists appraisal of situation in world’s psychology as a crisis is doubted. The objective of the study is to establish whether this appraisal is true to the fact or it expresses only anxieties of domestic psychological community. Based on analysis of differences in methodological debates about crisis, holding in domestic and foreign psychology, the author reveals the causes and factors of experiencing crisis by Russian psychologists from the socio-cultural and psychological positions. The conclusion that statement of crisis in psychological science is concealing the crisis of identity of Russian psychologists is drawn. The author considers that world psychology is not in intra-science crisis. Meanwhile, it is stated that psychology as a cultural activity of a certain scientific communities is involved into global cultural and civili zational processes that are characterized at present as crisis. It is hypothesized that junior generation of Russian scientists is less exposed to identity crisis’s experiencing than the senior ones. The author considers intensional dialogue between junior and senior generations of domestic psychologists about methodological problems of psychology as an important condition for identity crisis overcoming.