The monograph is devoted to the study of the ideological and political functions of modern bourgeois psychology. In accordance with the task, the work considers the ideological and political potential of the main schools of Western psychology (psychoanalysis, modern behaviorism, cultural and humanistic psychology), as well as forms of its theoretical and practical implementation. The question is also raised about the current manifestations of neo-social Darwinism in bourgeois science and an analysis of a number of trends in social and clinical psychology that are directly related? to the ideological and political role of these disciplines.