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Notes

A fallback rubric for personal-site posts that do not belong to the other main rubrics but remain important as observations, notes, links, and standalone texts.

Not every text on the personal site must fit into the core thematic axes. “Notes” gather materials that matter on their own: reflections, observations, interim conclusions, personal texts, and themes that do not yet form a separate rubric.

Key ideas
  • DET context
  • links between rubrics
  • working formulations
  • observations from practice
  • clarifications and notes
  • hypotheses and draft models
  • meta-level understanding
  • limits of applicability
Practical application

Use this rubric when a personal-site post does not meet the criteria of the other main rubrics. It is the normal fallback for heterogeneous, personal, or transitional materials.

Rubric articles

A Russian-language infographic about Ouroboros with a golden serpent, cosmic imagery, and a diagram of descent into the unconscious.

Ouroboros, or What Came Before the Psyche

An analysis of the image of Ouroboros in Jung and Neumann: what the pre-psyche is, how it differs from the Shadow, and why this experience cannot be integrated like an ordinary archetype.

5/16/2026

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
The day an idea became an object

The day an idea became an object

The day an idea became an object: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

11/17/2025

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
Postgraduate study as a mirror of self-knowledge

Postgraduate study as a mirror of self-knowledge

Postgraduate study as a mirror of self-knowledge: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

10/17/2025

NotesGraduate School❗️ Top Ideas
The people without whom it would not have worked

The people without whom it would not have worked

The people without whom it would not have worked: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

9/28/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
Personal brand as a design project of the self

Personal brand as a design project of the self

Personal brand as a design project of the self: Anton Kolhonen reflects on personal brand, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

9/25/2025

NotesGraduate School⛳️ Effectiveness
Postgraduate studies and Bitcoin: is there a link?

Postgraduate studies and Bitcoin: is there a link?

Postgraduate studies and Bitcoin: is there a link? Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

9/23/2025

NotesGraduate School🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques
When a PhD reads rap

When a PhD reads rap

When a PhD reads rap: Anton Kolhonen reflects on unusual style, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

9/20/2025

NotesGraduate School✴️ Unusual Style
A researcher stands between a library staircase and a stream of mechanisms, colour, and musical notes.

Beyond Academic Writing. Part 3

The third part of the essay on academic writing: moving beyond the sterility of scientific language toward a living style, Bourdieu, and one's own intellectual voice.

9/18/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
A lone figure walks through a golden library hall among books and symbols of science.

The Value of Sterility, or How to Survive Academia

A post about the value of academic sterility: how dry scientific style teaches discipline, precision, self-restraint, and survival in academia.

9/18/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
Running figures, a classical bust, and a coloured stream of musical notes in a university hall.

Beyond Academic Writing. Part 2

The second part of the essay on academic writing: how rhythm, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and changes of tempo can bring living thought back into a scientific text.

9/13/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
A black-and-gold human profile with a golden tear and painted fragments across the face.

Beyond Academic Writing. Part 1

Beyond Academic Writing. Part 1: a reflection on how correction, academic discourse, and standards can drain life from a text — and why balance still matters.

9/11/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
Double optics: structure and chaos, science and insomnia

Double optics: structure and chaos, science and insomnia

Double optics: structure and chaos, science and insomnia: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

9/9/2025

NotesGraduate School🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
Four illustrated ducks carrying coffee, pumpkins, and a basket of flowers.

An Ode to Specialization, or Why One Person Should Not Do Everything

A post about specialization, intellectual overload, and the limits of competence: why one person should not do everything in complex projects.

9/7/2025

NotesGraduate School🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques
A book begins with an idea, a dissertation with a plan

A book begins with an idea, a dissertation with a plan

A book begins with an idea, a dissertation with a plan: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

9/5/2025

NotesGraduate School🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques
What I came from: study, barracks, courses, kitchen

What I came from: study, barracks, courses, kitchen

What I came from: study, barracks, courses, kitchen: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

9/3/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
Anton Kolhonen smiles while seated at a desk in medical attire.

Announcement: Why This Series and What It Is About

An introduction to a series on postgraduate psychology study: how academic training becomes a test of maturity, personal transformation, and a path toward defending a dissertation.

9/2/2025

NotesGraduate School🛐 On University Education
Learning

Learning

A mini-post about lifelong learning, the value of education, and the ability to keep renewing one’s knowledge throughout life.

8/31/2025

Notes🛐 On University Education
Wholeness

Wholeness

A mini post on Abraham Maslow’s idea of wholeness and how a broader perspective reframes pain, danger, and evil.

8/29/2025

Notes🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
GPT agents: the co-evolution of brain and machine

GPT agents: the co-evolution of brain and machine

GPT agents: the co-evolution of brain and machine: Anton Kolhonen reflects on AI, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

7/26/2025

Notes🤖 AI
A woman sits beside a car in a dark forest as vehicles with emergency lights approach behind her.

PTSD

A mini post about PTSD, crisis support, and the importance of timely professional help after traumatic experience.

7/20/2025

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
A man stands on a clock face between images of the past and future in a stormy space.

The Vicious Cycle of Stress

A mini post about the vicious cycle of stress, negative time perspective, and recognizing recurring anxious patterns.

7/16/2025

Notes🔂 Patterns
Humanity reaches for the stars, but the scariest monsters are inside us

Humanity reaches for the stars, but the scariest monsters are inside us

Humanity reaches for the stars, but the scariest monsters are inside us: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

7/13/2025

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy

A mini-post about psychotherapy as a process of expanding self-understanding, awareness, and reconnection with one's own experience.

6/30/2025

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
A seated person is surrounded by faces turned toward them and connected by glowing lines.

Listening

A mini post about listening, empathy, and the therapeutic power of attentive presence in human communication.

6/27/2025

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
Two people talk while seated opposite each other in armchairs in a therapy office.

Therapy

A mini post about therapy as a space for focus, openness, awareness, and transferring inner discoveries into everyday life.

6/26/2025

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
Group therapy

Group therapy

A mini post on group therapy, personal experience, interpersonal roles, and bringing therapeutic insights into real life.

6/23/2025

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
A critically important goal in the age of AI

A critically important goal in the age of AI

A critically important goal in the age of AI: Anton Kolhonen reflects on AI, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

6/17/2025

Notes🤖 AI
Integration

Integration

A mini post on Frederick Perls, integration of opposites, inner polarity, and a Gestalt view of wholeness.

6/15/2025

Notes🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
A solitary tree stands before a bright sun and casts long branching shadows.

Chiaroscuro

A mini post on chiaroscuro, the mutual dependence of opposites, and accepting the light and dark sides of personality.

6/13/2025

Notes🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality
Censorship

Censorship

A mini post about censorship, network filtering, propaganda, and the psychological effects of controlling information space.

6/12/2025

Notes⚜️ Humanistic Principles
Persistence

Persistence

A mini post about persistence, patience, and steady forward movement in achieving personal and professional goals.

6/9/2025

Notes⛳️ Effectiveness
GPT Remote Relay

GPT Remote Relay

A technical note on GPT Remote Relay Bridge: remote OpenAI calls, log handling, fallback logic, and scalable AI infrastructure.

6/2/2025

Notes🤖 AI
A businessman stands above a city with arms outstretched toward a burst of sunlight.

The risk of entrepreneurship

A mini post about entrepreneurial risk, determination, and belief in one's own idea through a passage from Ray Kroc.

5/26/2025

Notes⛳️ Effectiveness
Two people on opposite sides of a high wall reach toward a light between them.

Sexual problems

A mini post after Erich Fromm on sexual problems, love, trust, and the psychological roots of disturbed intimacy.

5/21/2025

Notes💙 Ideas about Relationships
Self-giving

Self-giving

A mini post on Erich Fromm's idea of self-giving, mature love, productive orientation, and the fear of giving oneself.

5/20/2025

Notes💙 Ideas about Relationships
A network diagram of correlations between evaluations of good and evil and dark- and light-triad traits.

Psychopathy, good and evil: what we understood today

Psychopathy, good and evil: how personality traits relate to moral evaluation and why acceptance matters for the therapeutic alliance.

4/15/2025

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
The narcissistic wound

The narcissistic wound

A mini post about the narcissistic wound, ego boundaries, defensive isolation, and André Green’s psychoanalytic view.

4/7/2025

Notes🪞 Narcissism
So what is going on with the bill?

So what is going on with the bill?

A reflection on the Russian psychological-assistance bill as discussed in April 2025: professional boundaries, education, regulation, and the risks of protecting clients through overly rigid gates.

4/5/2025

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
Post-traumatic growth and Elon Musk

Post-traumatic growth and Elon Musk

A post about post-traumatic growth and PTSD: an authorial reading of Elon Musk's and Steve Jobs's biographies through adaptation, compensation, and achievement.

4/4/2025

Notes🔂 Patterns
Sublimation

Sublimation

A note on sublimation in psychoanalysis: how libido, repression, and sexual drive are transformed into a thirst for knowledge and intellectual work.

4/2/2025

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
Anxiety

Anxiety

A psychoanalytic note on anxiety in André Green: displacement, secondary discharge, depression, and defenses that do not remove internal pressure.

3/26/2025

Notes🛡 Defense Mechanisms
The future of psychology: AI and digital therapists

The future of psychology: AI and digital therapists

The future of psychology: AI and digital therapists: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

3/16/2025

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
A speaker holding a sheet of paper addresses a large audience in an assembly hall.

The Psychological Assistance Bill: Bourdieu’s Lesson for Psychologists

The psychological assistance bill through Bourdieu: how the state unifies professions and what that experience can teach psychologists.

3/14/2025

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
Two ancient philosophers debate before a crowd near a Greek temple.

Psychology under lock and key: do we need this law?

An authorial analysis of the 2025 version of Russian bill No. 846497-8 on psychological practice, qualifications, and professional boundaries.

3/6/2025

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
A white horse whose mane and chest merge into clouds against a blue sky.

75 posts later

A reflection after 75 posts on the development of an authorial voice, expressive writing, openness to criticism, and the integration of difficult experience.

2/9/2025

NotesTales of the Northern Wind⚛️ Science and Psychology
Inner inventory

Inner inventory

Inner inventory: Anton Kolhonen reflects on patterns, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

2/5/2025

Narcissism and self-acceptance

Narcissism and self-acceptance

A mini post about narcissism, self-acceptance, shame, ambition, and finding a more honest relationship with one’s reflection.

10/26/2024

Notes🪞 Narcissism
Anton Kolhonen sits at an office desk and looks toward the camera.

The third year of postgraduate study: a bridge to psychotherapy

A personal essay about the third year of postgraduate study as a bridge to psychotherapy: research, teaching, professional formation, and movement toward practical psychology.

9/3/2024

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
Four clusters

Four clusters

Four clusters: Anton Kolhonen reflects on psychology, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

8/20/2024

Notes⚛️ Science and Psychology
Two figures hold their hands near the face of a sun within a circular cosmic composition.

Working with imagery in psychotherapy

A personal record of imagery work in psychotherapy: shifting scenes, symbols, bodily sensations, anger, fear, freedom, and the emergence of new meaning.

6/17/2024

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy
The autonomy of habits

The autonomy of habits

A post about the functional autonomy of habits: how old behavior patterns keep guiding a person after the original need has disappeared.

4/12/2024

Notes🔂 Patterns
The humanistic approach

The humanistic approach

The humanistic approach: Anton Kolhonen reflects on humanistic approach, personal experience, and the psychological work behind inner change.

11/15/2023

Notes⚜️ Humanistic Principles
A person seen from behind touches a fold of skin at the waist.

Social crisis and obesity: research data

A post about the relationship between social crisis, chronic stress, and obesity: research findings, psychological mechanisms, and everyday practices.

9/6/2023

Notes🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques💆 Massage
A winged figure flies through the clouds on the back of a giant crayfish.

Parable: Icarus and the Crayfish

An authorial parable about Icarus and the crayfish: an image-rich text about risk, setbacks, environmental resistance, and the forces that keep aspiration in balance.

9/2/2023

Notes✴️ Unusual Style✍️ Rhyme and Poetry
A collage showing people exercising, a woman feeling low, and a massage session.

Fitness and Massage for Depression Prevention

Fitness, massage, and depression: what evidence says about physical activity, post-exercise recovery, and the limits of claims for massage.

3/10/2023

Notes🪡 Skills, Methods, Techniques💆 Massage
Cadets and guests seated in a crowded assembly hall.

Nostalgia

A poetic text about nostalgia, inner fatigue, and personal reflection where the image of time meets themes of loneliness and self-acceptance.

12/13/2021

Notes🕎 Psychotherapy✍️ Rhyme and Poetry
Anton Kolhonen standing on a beach in Sochi and holding two painted stones.

Sweet Coffee Time☕

A lyrical post about dreams, inner pain, and support in relationships. The text combines a romantic image, vulnerability, and a mindset of overcoming.

11/10/2021

Notes💙 Ideas about Relationships✍️ Rhyme and Poetry
A bicycle beside a wooden house under construction, seen past a seated person’s legs, with Russian text about choosing a road overlaid above.

Freedom from Smolyanov's Scarecrow

A reflection on fear, greed, and the discipline of attention: how to choose the right thoughts and stay on your path amid temptations and information noise.

8/27/2021

Notes❗️ Top Ideas
A stylized ceramic horse figurine against a gray background.

Troy (in the boat): Not shit, but me 🐕

A reflection on how consciousness and activity shape a person, while public events become a channel for alienation and tension.

1/26/2021

Notes✴️ Unusual Style
A light temporary placeholder with abstract wavy lines and the large Russian text “ВРЕМЕННАЯ ЗАСТАВКА.”

Psychologist's Day. 🧭

Psychologist's Day is a personal reflection on vocation, the image of the specialist, and the romance of the profession through quotes and poetry.

11/22/2020

Notes❗️ Top Ideas
Reverence for Life

Reverence for Life

Reverence for life as a stance: love as a path to knowing oneself and the world, opposed to destruction.

11/6/2020

Notes⚜️ Humanistic Principles
A light temporary placeholder with abstract wavy lines and the large Russian text “ВРЕМЕННАЯ ЗАСТАВКА.”

Narcissus Sat Before the Mirror

A poem about Narcissus who, in the mirror, sees other people’s fates and his own "I", asking questions about meaning, freedom, and acceptance.

11/3/2020

Notes🪞 Narcissism✍️ Rhyme and Poetry
Anton Kolhonen in the FitFashion massage studio

I as a Massage Therapist

A text about the massage therapist's “I‑position” and how massage helps restore a person's physical and mental resources.

10/4/2020

Notes💆 Massage
A light temporary placeholder with abstract wave lines and the large Russian text “ВРЕМЕННАЯ ЗАСТАВКА.”

A Diploma Just in Case

A personal text about receiving a diploma, finishing a master's degree, choosing a life path, and the feeling of a transitional period between education and a new professional direction.

7/23/2020

Notes❗️ Top Ideas
A light temporary placeholder image with abstract wave lines, the large Russian text “ВРЕМЕННАЯ ЗАСТАВКА,” the label default.jpg, and a small logo in the upper-right corner.

Oil Painting

A confessional poem about inner conflict, fear of intimacy, and the search for identity through a poetic voice.

6/25/2020

Notes✴️ Unusual Style✍️ Rhyme and Poetry
Road to the psychology faculty at Saint Petersburg State University

Road to the Psychology Faculty

A path to the SPbU psychology faculty and work in the lab: EEG research and a personal sense of moving from studies to real practice.

3/6/2020

Notes🛐 On University Education🎓 Thoughts While Studying at Lesgaft
Anton Kolhonen reflected in a gym mirror through a disintegration effect.

Rewriting the Final Draft

A personal essay about inner reassembly in early 2020: the sense of disintegration and the birth of something new, fixed in words and image.

2/9/2020

Notes❗️ Top Ideas
Two silhouettes — Anton Kolhonen and his acquaintance Masha — take a selfie inside an abandoned building on Vasilyevsky Island.

Interpersonal and Interneuronal Connections as a Factor in Human Problems and Evolution

A reflection on how the connection between people helps overcome inner conflicts: the mind is weak, yet communication with another mind becomes a support and a source of development.

4/27/2019

Notes💙 Ideas about Relationships🎓 Thoughts While Studying at Lesgaft
A golden Tree of Knowledge with apples on a black background.

Knowledge of Good and Evil

A short parable about the Fall and freedom of choice, where the dialogue of Adam and Eve reveals the price of knowing good and evil.

3/1/2019

Notes🌓 Dark and Light Side of Personality🎓 Thoughts While Studying at Lesgaft
A black-and-white photograph of a muscular shirtless man in a worn industrial interior.

Belief in Your Abilities

A reflection on how self-belief and lived-through defeats shape character and expand life’s amplitude.

12/10/2018

Notes💪 Overcoming🎓 Thoughts While Studying at Lesgaft
Two white figures work together to move a system of colored gears

Multidisciplinary Approach

Explore how integrating training, wellness practices, and psychology creates a holistic approach to personal and societal health.

11/15/2017

Notes⚜️ Humanistic Principles
Anton Kolhonen and Pavel Zaytsev, wearing matching uniforms and caps, stand side by side with their arms around each other’s shoulders and touch fists.

Can a Person Change?

A reflection on how a person changes habits and worldview through tension, conflict, and environmental influence.

5/1/2017

Notes🔂 Patterns🎓 Thoughts While Studying at Lesgaft
One person holds another in their arms in a room with a piano.

Closeness and Independence

Closeness and independence in relationships: love as care, responsibility, and respect for another person’s freedom and growth.

12/15/2016

Notes💙 Ideas about Relationships