The Cultural-Historical Concept and Possibilities of Using Nonverbal Communication in Reconstituting the Personality

Abstract

The cultural-historical concept of Vygotsky, Luria, and Leont'ev constitutes the foundation of a historical, evolutionary approach to psychology. Essentially, the development of man's world is regarded as being organically embedded in culture, which exists in and through various forms of sociohistorical activity. Whatever the paths traversed by Vygotsky, Luria, and Leont'ev in their quests, and whatever the specific objects they chose to study, this view pervaded all of their investigations.