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Unfortunately, traditionally the humanities and natural sciences develop along isolated vectors. A change in the leading paradigm in one of these industries has almost no effect on the transformation of trends in the development of another. For example, the influence of psychology on physics and vice versa is almost invisible. What is the reason for this, and can the situation change towards greater cooperation between the natural sciences and humanities spheres of scientific consciousness? Of course, this question sounds quite global. It is unlikely that I will be able to answer it fully. But paying attention to what ideas of modern physics, in particular quantum mechanics, and how they can be integrated into the process of modern development of psychotherapy, may turn out to be a completely accessible undertaking within the framework of one article. Let us briefly turn to the history of the problem. For the second century now, psychotherapy has captured the minds of mankind. At the beginning of the 20th century, starting his work as a “scientific psychology project,” Sigmund Freud revolutionized people’s consciousness. Conversation has now ceased to be just a means of maintaining social contacts, but has turned into a tool for psychological assistance to people. It turned out that despite the fact that we know quite a lot about ourselves, we are even more in the dark about the nature of our psychological reactions and actions. The first thing that the founder of psychotherapy postulated and that to this day is unshakable in the methodology of psychological assistance was the principle of mental determinism. It said the following: every mental phenomenon has a cause. According to this principle, the building of psychotherapy began to be built. The belief that by finding the cause of a psychological phenomenon, in particular a symptom, we can get rid of its painful power remains the most popular psychotherapeutic thesis today. Moreover, this is one of the most accepted and understood psychological ideas in the public consciousness. Thus, most clients turn to psychotherapy, having already been sufficiently informed in this area: “I know, we need to discover the cause of my problem in the process of psychotherapy!” But let’s go back again a century ago. Around the same time, i.e. Simultaneously with the advent of psychoanalysis, a revolution also occurred in physics. At the dawn of the 20th century, classical physics was forced to make room, giving way next to itself (for now next to itself) to new physics, which was called quantum. Emerging from experiments that postulated the dual nature of the elementary particle, quantum mechanics began by knocking the principle of determinism off its pedestal. Now the electron's position could not be inferred in any way from its previous location. And in general, as soon as we tried to measure the speed of his movement to another point, we would generally lose the ability to determine his location. In other words, the electron now exists anywhere in the Universe, but only until we try to detect it. The observer very quickly helps the unruly particle to localize. The fundamental quantum principle was indeterminism. This was so unusual for classical Newtonian physics that it caused confusion and confusion in science. However, very soon panic and confusion in scientific circles gave way to a wave of unprecedented enthusiasm. A new stage has begun in physics, one might say a new era - the era of quantum mechanics. Over the course of a century, the ideas of quantum physics became so popular that they took root in the public consciousness. Today, conversations about quantum principles can be heard not only in scientific laboratories, but also in works of art, popular television programs, and even in kitchens. So, having appeared at the beginning of the last century, quantum physics, as well as psychotherapy in its niche of social consciousness, captured the minds of people. Paradoxically, it is a fact, having appeared at the same time,