This year is an anniversary year for the famous Russian psychologist Ramil Garifullin. He turned 60 years old. 2022 will be the year for him to hold anniversary creative meetings, which will be held at the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan and other cultural institutions.
I know that he himself does not like to sum up the results and appreciates more the anticipation and joy of what remains to be done, although he appreciates the aftertaste of the results of his activities. Therefore, I will try to analyze the multifaceted activities of Ramil Garifullin as a creative person in science and art.
I know that he devoted a significant part of his time to research and teaching at the university. He is an associate professor at the Institute of Psychology and Education of KFU. The rest of their time was devoted to work related to psychotherapy and psychological assistance to their patients.
No matter how public R. Garifullin was, he was a cabinet man. He has been sitting at his oak Belarusian desk all his life, which many colleagues, friends and friends know about, including me, the author of these lines. It was at this table that he wrote many of his scientific monographs and books published in the largest federal Russian publishing houses: "Encyclopedia of Bluff" (1995), "Illusionism of personality as a new philosophical and psychological concept" (1997), "Psychotherapeutic studies in verse" (1998), "Hidden prevention of drug addiction" (2002), "Psychological foundations of drug addiction prevention" (2002), "Unpredictable psychology. What was the therapist silent about?" (2003), "Coding personality from alcohol and drug addiction" (2004), "Book encoding and curing alcoholism", "Dangerous psychological traps" (2004), "Dangerous psychological traps" (2004), "Nanopsychology as a new science, nanophilosophy as a new Worldview" (2005), "Fundamentals of Postmodern Psychology" (2015), "Fundamentals of Postmodern Pedagogy" (2021).
R. Garifullin has been successfully published in the largest Russian publishing houses Phoenix, Sphere, Stolitsa-Print, etc. Not many authors of our republic are so widely published at the federal level.
By the way, his latest monograph is devoted to a new direction in psychology – postmodern psychology. It means that the time has come to transform the concepts and apparatus of scientific psychology that do not meet the challenges of the modern era. Garifullin developed these concepts and a new scientific and psychological apparatus. This work examines how the psyche and personality are transformed in the conditions of perversions of our time. In essence, Ramil Garifullin laid the foundations of a new direction in psychology - postmodern psychology.
By the way, it was at that very oak table of Garifullin that the scripts for the feature films "Disguise", "Director of the Brain" and two plays were written.
In 1979, he entered Kazan State University, from which he graduated in 1984 with a degree in physics and in 1991 with a degree in psychology. In 1991, he completed a course of study at the Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute, specializing in group psychotherapy. Since 1990, he has been the director of the first psychological counseling and rehabilitation center in Kazan.
Ramil Garifullin admitted during his media interviews that he was grateful to many of his Teachers. In physics, this is primarily Alexander Ivanovich Maklakov, Professor of the Department of Molecular Physics at KSU, Vadim Grigoryevich Khozin, Professor at KISI, from whom he completed postgraduate studies. In psychology, this is academician and Professor Rafail Khairullovich Shakurov, as well as Professor Leonid Mikhailovich Popov of KFU. R. Garifullin often visits his Department of Molecular Physics at KFU. It's always psychotherapy for him to go there!
Once he wanted to go to graduate school in psychology, but it turns out he can't do it a second time. He was accepted as a candidate of Kazan University to Professor Leonid Mikhailovich Popov. But he defended his PhD thesis "Psychocorrection of semantic structures of a drug-addicted personality" already under the guidance of academician Shakurov Rafail Khairullovich.
Ramil Garifullin was very grateful to CFU Professor Leonid Popov for highlighting the value of his research and publications in the field of manipulation psychology as the beginning of the development of this field in Russia. But Garifullin defended himself on the psychology of drug-addicted individuals. As already noted, Ramil Garifullin's supervisor was academician Professor Rafail Shakurov. There is a transcript of the dissertation defense, in which academician Shakurov raised the question of Garifullin defending himself immediately for a doctor of sciences, since he already had recognized and well-cited monographs. But Shakurov said: let's not anger the VAK.
At the same time, it should be noted that more than thirty years have passed since Garifullin wrote his first dissertation on intermolecular interactions and supramolecular structures in oligomers. Ramil Garifullin has a patent. I chose molecular physics because, as a student, I became interested in chain molecules, especially DNA and proteins, but there was no department of biophysics. Ramil Garifullin's knowledge of the physics of chain molecules still helps him. In 2006, his article on nanomolecular structures of the brain was published. Garifullin's articles on physics are quite well cited in Scopus.
Why did Ramil Garifullin leave physics for psychology?
It was the end of the 80s, a difficult time, a hard time. He got married, he had to survive somehow. He himself comes from an acting family, his father Ramzi Garifullin was an actor from the first graduation of the theater school. He worked on the line of the society "Knowledge", and also, being a professional illusionist, gave lectures "Miracles without miracles", showing psychological experiments. He died in 1982. Therefore, in the late 80s, Ramil Garifullin decided to continue the traditions of his father and, through the Znanie society, also began to lecture on psychology, almost completely unknown in our country, as an educator. And he quickly turned out to be probably the most highly paid lecturer of this society. Ramil Garifullin's lectures were held in large halls, even in the Kazan Circus – in the 90s, in the Evening, journalist Vladimir Muzychenko published the material "Hypnosis under the dome of the circus". It is clear that psychological observations and facts accumulated. In one of his interviews, Garifullin said that he descended into psychology already having the skills of scientific work, and did not rise, but before that he was deeply engaged in philosophy. He was invited to the Department of Philosophy of KAI, but did not go there. But for a long time I went to the Vasiliev Museum to the philosophical club to Samuel Yudelevich Sher. This club influenced him very much, he felt how to understand philosophy. Although he was self-taught in philosophy. Garifullin has a considerable number personalities. As already noted, Ramil Garifullin's supervisor was academician Professor Rafail Shakurov. There is a transcript of the dissertation defense, in which academician Shakurov raised the question of Garifullin defending himself immediately for a doctor of sciences, since he already had recognized and well-cited monographs. But Shakurov said: let's not anger the VAK.
At the same time, it should be noted that more than thirty years have passed since Garifullin wrote his first dissertation on intermolecular interactions and supramolecular structures in oligomers. Ramil Garifullin has a patent. I chose molecular physics because, as a student, I became interested in chain molecules, especially DNA and proteins, but there was no department of biophysics. Ramil Garifullin's knowledge of the physics of chain molecules still helps him. In 2006, his article on nanomolecular structures of the brain was published. Garifullin's articles on physics are quite well cited in Scopus.
Why did Ramil Garifullin leave physics for psychology?
It was the end of the 80s, a difficult time, a hard time. He got married, he had to survive somehow. He himself comes from an acting family, his father Ramzi Garifullin was an actor from the first graduation of the theater school. He worked on the line of the society "Knowledge", and also, being a professional illusionist, gave lectures "Miracles without miracles", showing psychological experiments. He died in 1982. Therefore, in the late 80s, Ramil Garifullin decided to continue the traditions of his father and, through the Znanie society, also began to lecture on psychology, almost completely unknown in our country, as an educator. And he quickly turned out to be probably the most highly paid lecturer of this society. Ramil Garifullin's lectures were held in large halls, even in the Kazan Circus – in the 90s, in the Evening, journalist Vladimir Muzychenko published the material "Hypnosis under the dome of the circus". It is clear that psychological observations and facts accumulated. In one of his interviews, Garifullin said that he descended into psychology already having the skills of scientific work, and did not rise, but before that he was deeply engaged in philosophy. He was invited to the Department of Philosophy of KAI, but did not go there. But for a long time I went to the Vasiliev Museum to the philosophical club to Samuel Yudelevich Sher. This club influenced him very much, he felt how to understand philosophy. Although he was self-taught in philosophy. Garifullin has a considerable number of philosophical articles on postmodern philosophy. As a result, such an interesting fate of Ramil Garifullin has developed.
Ramil Garifullin has always tried and is trying to become the origin of something new. He always tries to do things that no one has done before him, to lay new foundations, to develop conceptual projects...
One of them is the psychology of manipulation. This is a field of psychology that has not developed at all in our country. And it so happened that Ramil Garifullin was the first to start doing this professionally in the early 90s, and he only learned that this was the beginning from his teacher, Professor of psychology Leonid Mikhailovich Popov. Garifullin's books were published, and after him, work began in Russia in this field – the psychology of manipulation. It's now that the store shelves are littered with books on psychology and many people imagine themselves to be psychologists, but then everything was empty and bald.
In addition, Garifullin dealt with the psychological and theoretical problems of various addictions or addictions: alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling addiction... And he managed to create a fairly coherent psychological theory of an addictive and dependent personality. There are a lot of works on the psychophysiology of addictions, but so far there are few works on the fundamental and theoretical psychology of addictions. What happens to a person when he becomes addicted, how are his motives, values, meanings, attitudes transformed and how can this be adjusted? Ramil Garifullin, as a scientist-psychologist, devoted his PhD thesis to this, and after defending it, it was republished in the form of a monograph and books many times in large federal publishing houses.
It should be noted that R.R. Garifullin was professionally engaged in the problem of psychological security of our country. In the 90s, he first thought about how alcoholism of officials can affect the problem of national security of our state, how much our society, due to the degradation caused by alcoholism and drug addiction, can become dangerous to itself?!
Garifullin addressed this problem to the administration of the President of Russia, and he developed a concept of psychological security. It was implemented in the government and administration of the President of Tatarstan. Vener Asylgareevich Salimov, and he was then an assistant to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan for I accepted it, sent it out, there were large publications in republican newspapers.
When talking about state security, they mainly consider the problem of the external destructive influence of individuals, communities, countries and various social institutions, for example, terrorists, extremist organizations, the media and others on society as a whole. When considering the psychological security of the state, a different task is being solved: how can society as a whole, degrading emotionally and intellectually, harm itself, the state, and statehood? In particular, this includes the problems of drug addiction, alcoholization, schizophrenization, debilitation of society as a whole, as well as its individual structures and citizens: students and parents, senior staff and their subordinates, representatives of various social institutions, professions. All this was scientifically substantiated for the first time in Russia by Ramil Garifullin. He showed the main directions of danger that lie in wait for officials, how does the emotional and volitional degradation of personality occur and what can it lead to? By the way, all these works of his are widely available on the Internet, they can be read. There have been a lot of television programs on these topics. They are on YouTube.
Later, on the basis of the provisions on the psychology of addictions, in particular, financial addictions, developed by Garifullin, he also developed the concept of bribery. It turned out that many officials suffer if they do not take bribes. They get depressed based on this addiction. And they take bribes not only to get rich, but because they suffer without them. They, as drug addicts, need to "take another dose", another bribe to relieve these sufferings. This is a special case and a kind of kleptomania. Bribery is not always a bribery addiction, just as alcohol consumption is not always alcoholism. Garifullin's research has shown that credit-dependent individuals, suffering from a bribe-credit-dependent complex, being in fear of non-payment of debts, are more open to criminal ways of obtaining finance, including corruption. This concept of bribery has been published in major academic journals. And it was adopted by the head of the Office of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan on anti-corruption policy, Mars Sarymovich Badrutdinov. He constantly invites Ramil Garifullin as an expert.
There is a risk group that includes addictive individuals who are predisposed to become dependent on any value. In this case, from bribes. This project of Garifullin was published in the bulletins of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Tatarstan.
I would like to note that almost all of Garifullin's scientific projects, which were actively used by the authorities, were almost never paid for by anyone. Garifullin developed various concepts, presented them to the authorities, they implemented and applied. There has never been any material benefit in this for Garifullin. For example, in connection with the transformations taking place around the TNV TV channel (Tatarstan – New Century), Garifullin in 2005 developed the concept of interethnic broadcasting, which was supposed to revive the TV channel and make it one of the leading TV channels for interethnic communication of non-Russian nationalities in Russia.
Ilshat Aminov, CEO of the New Century broadcasting Company, told Garifullin, they say, implement it yourself, at least at the Internet level! But Garifullin did not have good producers to move it. But just think how much a federal TV channel is needed, where all the peoples of the CIS would be represented, where their cultural dialogue would take place. This is the best prevention of interethnic conflicts. And this interethnic dialogue does not have to be political, it is a cultural project. Garifullin sent this concept to the President of Russia, the President of Tatarstan. There was a correspondence, a giant Talmud was formed: the machine works, unsubscribes, directs back and forth.
Garifullin showed that an all-Russian channel of interethnic communication and unity of various nationalities of Russia is necessary. Regular TV shows should be carried out on this channel, which would create a new Russian ideology in an exciting way, which would be based not on Russification and Christianization of all Russians, but on unity, mutual understanding and dialogue between the peoples of Russia. Ramil Garifullin proposed either the concept of transforming the TNV channel, or the concept of creating a new all-Russian channel based on combining television, information and financial resources from various regions of Russia ( , copyright of R.R. Garifullin No. 300009 from 2005 and 2007).
Further, Garifullin developed the concept of Wikipedia as a problem of national information security. His articles on this the topic has already been published. Garifullin's research has shown that Wikipedia is a battlefield where there is a powerful behind–the-scenes struggle between different countries over the texts that are being formed there. I advise readers to see how discussions of certain texts for Wikipedia are going, especially in the humanitarian field. Wikipedia, of course, is a useful thing, Newton's law and other information from the field of exact sciences are well presented there. But in the field of humanitarian, historical, and topics related to Russia, for example, the Great Patriotic War, the third World War for the souls and minds of people has been going on there for a long time at the information level. In connection with the events in Ukraine, the problem of Wikipedia's information security has worsened and these results of Garifullin's research have become even more relevant.
In fact, Ramil Garifullin has been engaged all his life, without noticing it, in national security issues, and without a social order from the authorities. He developed psychotypes, the concept of the identity of terrorists, and it was also published. He was then interviewed for the Vremya program
Garifullin's next concept turned out to be the concept of "the United States as a psychopathological entity." It turned out to be relevant especially today, when the United States no longer respects any agreements at all, when they have double standards, as it happens with loonies. The whole country behaves like a psychopathological subject – there is a powerful correlation here! Moreover, the United States imposes creditomania, gambling addiction on the world, hooked the world on the dollar as a drug, and then they also impose sanctions, exploiting those hooked on the "drug dollar". This is a country that breeds social psychopathology all over the world, and then wonders where terrorism came from. All these provisions were developed and researched by Ramil Garifullin.
Going back, I would like to note how psychologist Ramil Garifullin participated in the TV program "Rush Hour" with an audience of 180 million people in the late 90s. It was his real Rush Hour! ...
He spent three decades working on television, remaining a scientist. That is, I have always used television only as a tool. He had a television project where he pioneered the genre of psychoanalytic investigations with famous people. He received an author's certificate for this project. He conducted this project of psychoanalysis for two years in the federal weekly magazine Arguments of the Week. Many stars have visited this project – from politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky to singer Irina Saltykova. When this idea was stolen from him on the First TV Channel, Garifullin even sued, and the program stolen from him was taken off the air.
R. Garifullin has been publishing in various republican and all-Russian literary and artistic magazines and print media for more than thirty years. For his successful journalistic and writing activities, he received the title of "Honored Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan" (nominated by the Union of Journalists of the Republic of Tatarstan).
His multi-genre literary work always arouses the interest of readers. These are short stories, epigrams, novellas, plays: "Psychotherapeutic sketches in verse" (1998), "A TV Game in nothing" (1999), "A dream with a smile on your face" (2005), "Flight over the people of the psychiatric hospital" (2006), etc. His stories were published in the magazine "Idel". He has a large number of publications in the largest print media. For several years he worked as a columnist for the weekly magazine Arguments of the Week (Moscow).
Ramil Garifullin's literary short stories "Kazan-Nostalgia", published in the Tatar book publishing house in 2018, are successful and popular among readers and Internet visitors.
In addition, he mastered the cinematography tool. He has a film distribution certificate from the Ministry of Culture of Russia. Garifullin has been teaching at the University of Culture and Arts for 15 years, and has been an associate professor at the Department of Television and Cinema for the last three years. At first, cinema was a hobby, he made four short films about women and their dreams, "Disguise".
In general, no matter what project Garifullin is engaged in in art, he remains a psychologist. For example, he wrote the script and directed the full-length feature film "Director of the Brain". I received a film distribution certificate for him from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The premiere took place in 2015 at the Mir cinema. Garifullin himself played both a psychiatrist and a psychiatrist disguised as a mental patient in this film. He played a character who says, "My brain is poisoned by a green dollar," and picks out his brain with a teaspoon. This is a very multifaceted role.
Ramil Garifullin was an expert and TV presenter on various TV channels: Tatarstan, TNV, Ether (Kazan), Domashny (Moscow). In 2002, he shot his first short films "Disguise" (four films) on the Tatarstan TV channel. He was the director of photography, and also played the main role in them. The director of photography for these short films was Yu. Pin
He starred in episodes in the TV series "Ambulance" (2003, studio "President", Russian Channel, directed by A. Kayumov), in the feature film "Star of the Epoch" (2005, directed by Yu. Kara), "Don't forget". In 2012, he starred in the title role of the short film "Reseda" (2012, dir. Lilia Rahmet).
In 2015, Ramil Garifullin shot a full-length feature film "Director of the Brain" (Rental certificate No. 111013115 dated 08/12/2015). In this project, I was the director of photography, and also played the main role. The premiere was successfully held on October 6 at the Mir cinema (Kazan).
In 2013, Garifullin developed the author's course "Psychology and Sociology of Cinema" at KazGUKI. He has many journalistic articles ("Arguments of the Week", "Star of the Volga region") dedicated to cinema, outstanding film directors and film actors.
It was the creative component in education that interested Ramil Garifullin and therefore a significant part of his scientific work (see R.R. Garifullin, Psychology of Artistic Creativity, 2003) was devoted to the psychology of creativity and art, problems of psychology in pedagogy and philosophical and psychological aspects of culture, as well as other areas of psychology, since he taught at the department for almost fifteen years pedagogy and Psychology of the Kazan University of Culture and Arts (KSUKI). He taught "General Psychology" and others. at all faculties of KSUKI, from the perspective of problems of creativity and art. In addition, Garifullin gave lectures on various branches of psychology, adapting them for students of creative specialties. He taught not only in traditional and general educational areas of psychology, but also in various sections of psychology related to creativity and art (psychology of creativity, psychology of art, musical psychology, psychology of artistic activity, psychology of television, etc.). In fact, while working at KSUKI, he dealt with the problem of giftedness and creative abilities.
Thus, Ramil Garifullin became the founder of several areas of Russian psychology: the psychology of manipulation (1995), the fundamental psychology of drug addiction and addictions (2000) and postmodern psychology and pedagogy (2015, 2021), as well as the concept of Russian psychological security (2000).
Ravil Iskhakov
