Socionics  is a theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its informational model of the psyche (called Model A) and corresponding model of interpersonal relations.

Socionics appeared as an appropriate sequel of S.Freud’s (the founder of psychanalysis) theory and his talented student, Swiss psychiatrist, C.G.Jung. The short review of the socionics origin can be presented this way: Freud introduced an idea of a person’s mental structure consisting of the following levels: conscious (ego), preconscious (super-ego) and subconscious (id). Jung, in his turn, basing on his own 60 years experience with patients saw different filling of this structure. Jung classified constant, possible genetic differences in behaviour, person’s abilities, susceptibility to illnesses, appearance peculiarities. Considering these peculiarities, Jung worked out not one, as Freud had done, but 8 mental models and described 8 psychological types of personalities based on them.

Observations gave Jung grounds to state that some people are better with logical information (conclusions, proofs, reasoning) while others – with emotional one (people’s relationships and their feelings). Some have better developed intuition (anticipation, perception of the whole situation, instinctive grip on the information), others have better sensations (perception of outer and inner sensor stimulus). On the base of a more developed function, influencing the individual’s character, Jung defined the following types: thinking, feeling, intuitive, sensing. Each of these types had an extroversive and introversive variation.

Starting with Jung’s psychological types theory, Aushra Auguatinavichuite , the Lithuanian scientist, pedagogue and economist produced her own discipline – socionics. Where did she start? A. Augustinavichuite wrote that for long years she had tried to understand people’s relationships, why with all desire to be kind, sympathetic, good-natured people suddenly experience irritation and anger in their relations, without any apparent reason. She managed to combine Jung’s typology with the Theory of Informational Metabolism (exchange) created by a famous Polish psychologist and psychiatrist Anjei Kempinsky. According to this theory, an individual’s mental health depends on amount and quality of processed information. >>>