Pilot & Boatswain

The book is a guide to the world of human decisions, drives and wishes written for psychologically minded teens. It's called "Pilot & Boatswain" with dedication to my son and daughter.

Pilot - a person with expert local knowledge qualified to take charge of a ship entering or leaving a harbor. Boatswain - a ship’s officer in charge of equipment and the crew. 

The book is based on the story of the sailor Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Vicissitudes of fortune has isolated him from other people, so he couldn't derive pleasure from projective identification with men. 

Switches of his drives, described by the English writer, provide psychologically trustful description of psychodynamic system itself.

About the book

Pilot & Boatswain intriduces szondian heterodoxy - the system of psychodiagnostic knowledge that puts Szondian theory of subconscious drives, Gardnerian theory of multiple intelligences and outlines of bioethics together.

Predictive capacity of szondian heterodoxy rooted in modern methodology. It's main proposition for clinician - to go after the "silent" drive than was never implemented - helps to bring a decisive change into patient's psychodynamic.

Szondian definitions of the eight drives h s e hy k p d m the reader can find at

Borg, J.G. Drive Emotions and Colour Preferences: Szondi's Personality Theory in the year 2004. Tampere, Finland, Mc-Pilot Oy kustannus, 2005.

Gardnerian definitions of the eight intelligences: Intrapersonal-Existential, Verbal-Linguistic, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Visual-Spatial, Logical-Mathematical,  Musical-Rhytmic,Naturalistic, Interpersonal the reader can find at

Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Basic Books, 1983.

Gardner, H. Changing Minds: The art and science of changing our own and other people's minds, Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Szondian heterodoxy principles of psychological knowledge published in article

Bermant-Polyakova O.V. Psychodiagnostics and existence. e-concept. 2014. Full text is available at http://e-koncept.ru/author/2461.

Russian Books

Pilot & Boatswain is written in Russian.