Alexander Bukalov (born 1960) is a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 Socionics

Socionics

Socionics , in psychology, is a theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its information model of the psyche and a model of interpersonal relations. It incorporates Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types with Antoni Kępiński's theory of information metabolism...

 specialist. He founded the Socionics

Socionics

Socionics , in psychology, is a theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its information model of the psyche and a model of interpersonal relations. It incorporates Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types with Antoni Kępiński's theory of information metabolism...

 Institute in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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 (International Institute of Socionics (IIS)) in 1991. Alexander Bukalov is an Intuitive Logical Extrovert according to Socionics classification.

Socionics Journals

Not only is he the founder of International Institute of Socionics, Alexander Bukalov is the editor in Chief of all written material by the Kiev Socionics Institute, which publishes the following four socionics journals:

1. Socionics, Mentology and Personality Psychology
2. Psychology and Socionics of Interpersonal Relations
3. Management and Personnel: Problems of Management, Socionics and Sociology
4. Physics of Consciousness and Life, Cosmology and Astrophysics

Six issues of each journal (per year) have been published every year since 1995 in the Russian language, with various topics ranging from basic socionics theory, hypothesises concerning socionics theory, and speculative applications of socionics theory.

Socionics co-founder

After the original models presented by Ausura Augusta, Alexander Bukalov is responsible with Gregory Reinin and Victor Gulenko

Victor Gulenko

Victor Gulenko is a clinical psychologist and sociologist. He identifies himself as a socionist and is the chairperson of the Humanitarian Socionics Institute in Kiev, Ukraine.- Work :...

 for the structuring of modern socionics theory.