The Essential Vygotsky

A Dialogue with Vygotsky.- Section I: Problems of General Psychology: Thinking and Speech.- 1. The Problem and the Method of Investigation.- 2. The Genetic Roots of Thinking and Speech.- 3. Thought and Word.- 4. Perception and Its Development in Childhood.- 5. Emotions and Their Development in Childhood.- Section II: Fundamentals of Defectology (Abnormal Psychology and Learning Disabilities).- 6. Introduction: The Fundamental Problems of Defectology.- 7. The Difficult Child.- 8. The Dynamics of Child Character.- 9. The Collective as a Factor in the Development of the Abnormal Child.- Section III: Problems of the Theory and History of Psychology: Crisis in Psychology.- 10. The Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology: A Methodological Investigation.- Section IV: The History of the Development of High Term Mental Functions: Exegesis of Vygotsky’s Text.- 11. The Structure of Higher Mental Functions.- 12. Mastering Attention.- Section V: Child Psychology: Vygotsky’s Conception of Psychological Development.- 13. Development of Thinking and Formation of Concepts in the Adolescent.- 14. Dynamics and Structure of the Adolescent’s Personality.- 15. The Crisis at Age Seven.- Section VI: Scientific Legacy: Tool and Sign in the Development of the Child.- 16. The Problem of Practical Intellect in the Psychology of Animals and the Psychology of the Child.- 17. The Function of Signs in the Development of Higher Mental Processes.- 18. Sign Operations and Organization of Mental Processes.- 19. Analysis of Sign Operations of the Child.- Bibliography of Works about Vygotsky in English.