General Basics of Human Reflexology

Reprint from the publication. Moscow, Leningrad, 1928. The book proves that there is no innate reflex of slavery or freedom, and it is argued that society seems to be carried out by social selection, creating a moral person, and, thus, it is the social environment that is a source of human development. Heredity also sets the type of reaction, but the reactions themselves are brought up by society. The proof of such plasticity, the flexibility of the nervous system, its dependence on the environment were, according to Bekhterev, the study of genetic reflexology, which proved the priority of the environment in the development of reflexes of infants and young children. Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857-1927, Moscow) - Russian psychiatrist, neuropathologist, physiologist, psychologist, founder of reflexology and pathopsychological direction in Russia, academician. Secret Counselor, Lieutenant General of the Medical Service of the Russian Imperial Army. In 1907 he founded a neuropsychiatric institute in St. Petersburg - the world"s first scientific center for a comprehensive study of man and the scientific development of psychology, psychiatry, neurology and other “humanistic” disciplines organized as a research and higher educational institution, now bearing the name of V. M. Bekhterev . After the revolution in 1918, Bekhterev appealed to the Council of People"s Commissars with a petition for the organization of the Institute for the Study of the Brain and Mental Activities. Soon the institute opened, and Bekhterev was its director until his death