HOW TO LIVE: THE DEADLOCKS OF MATERIALISM AND THE OPPORTUNITIES OF PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract. The article discloses limitations and negative effects, connected to the materialistic orientation of a person. The analysis is conducted with the help of the achievements obtained by modern psychology and other human sciences. The author adduces numerous advantages, linked with the shift of individual attention to psychological and spiritual existential factors, which help to overcome the main negative consequences of the market materialism and hedonism. Such a transition also demands an increase of the role of professional psychologists.     

Keywords: adaptation, hedonism, spirituality, idealism, materialism, zero sum, happiness.

Levit Leonid – doctor of Psychology, associate professor, the Director of Center for psychological health and education, Minsk, Belarus

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