Genetic and Modeling Method: Its Heuristic and Developmental Potential

The main essential traits and principles of the genetic and modeling method are described in the article. It is proved that this method is one of the few in psychology (together with the longitude), that gives an opportunity to investigate the psychical development and thus its essential peculiarities. The possibilities of the method for the developmental and counseling psychology are revealed. The theoretical and methodological research and the resulting empirical data are noted to support the idea of the extreme scientific and applied productivity of the genetic and modeling method. The genetic psychology (and genetic modeling method as its basis) is shown to be the area of psychological knowledge, which can provide a prediction of personality development, by only on condition of the ideographic approach implementation (in the native psychology that term meets the concept of “clinical approach”). To explicate and describe a personality as a self-developing integrity is the essential task of genetic personality psychology, a branch of psychological science with great prospects. A subjective paradigm in combination with genetic and modeling research method, the acceptance of new postmodern views on the nature and structure of a unique human life, a correct transposition of the best achievements of the native psychology of the personality in work are the methodological platform for the genetic psychology in an effort to reveal the essential characteristics of the most amazing psychological phenomenon like the phenomenon of personality, its dynamics and structure.