In the textbook, personality psychology appears as the history of the development of a changing personality in a changing world. With the involvement of previously disparate facts from evolutionary biology, cultural anthropology, history, sociology, philology and medicine, questions about the origin of man, the norm and pathology of the personality, social programs of behavior, the role of conflicts and mutual assistance in the development of the personality, the motivation of the personality and the human search for the meaning of existence are discussed. For teachers and students of psychological faculties of universities, as well as specialists in the frontier areas of human knowledge who want to expand the horizons of their consciousness.3rd edition, corrected and enlarged.