Lazurskaya Alexander F.

(1874-1917), Russian physician and psychologist. Adhering to the orientation of the natural sciences, has developed a 'characterology' - the psychological concept of individual differences, seen in close connection with the activity of nerve centers ( 'Essay on the nature of science', 1909). In psychic reality focuses on two areas: endopsihiku as innate basis of personality, . including temperament, . nature and number of other psycho-physiological characteristics; ekzopsihiku, . understood as a system of personal relations to the world ( 'General and experimental psychology', . 1912),
. On this basis, constructed a system of classification of individuals. L. one of the first to conduct a study of personality in the natural conditions of the subject.