Signs of Rainin as a new word in science

Half a century ago, socionics as a science was not known. But nowadays, the camp of admirers of this new science, which has already earned a worthy place, is very extensive and is growing even more every year. To date, it is quite easy to trace the chronology of the development of socionics, which originated in the 70s of the twentieth century. The founder was the Lithuanian economist and psychologist Aushra Augustinavichute. Although today many have a stable association: socionics are signs of Rainin, we will not forget about the origins.

The emergence of socionics

Already in the early 1970s, Augustinavichute first got acquainted with the typology of the Swiss psychiatrist Jung Karl Gustav, the theory of informational metabolism of a psychiatrist from Poland Anton Kempinski, and Freud's theory of psychoanalysis. Aushra Augustinavichiute revealed that in addition to the already known structure (structure) of the psyche, there is also a relationship structure, which, in turn, is revealed by the psychological types of people, regardless of their intentions and desires.

We define socionics as the science of the types of people and the relationships between them. She studies psychological compatibility, informational interaction between each other, as well as between a person and his environment.

Socionics in everyday life

Peculiarities of a person’s communication, his abilities, professional inclinations, as well as powerful and weakest aspects of a person are defined as a psychological type. Currently, socionics is quite common in the practices of recruitment agencies, career guidance centers, socionic consulting and coaching, and even in the practice of marriage agencies.

The imposition of classical psychological approaches on typological ones in questions of psychological problems, professional and personal development and growth is a new round of psychotherapy. Focusing on typological features, we get some starting points, or reference points for a possible targeted step-by-step analysis, called “markers”, which quickly but effectively lead to an understanding of the picture of the formed situation and the reasons, possibilities and options for its development.

Currently, some socionic schools use typing (socionic diagnosis) signs of Rainin.

A new round in socionics

Signs of Reinin are fifteen orthogonal binary signs, such as information-energy metabolism or human sociotype, identified and proved by Grigory Romanovich Reinin, a Russian mathematician and psychologist, a native of present-day St. Petersburg.

Aushra Augustinavichyute and his colleague Larisa Kobrinskaya in 1980 suggested that there are 11 dichotomous signs, in addition to the four well-known Jung ones, and they are formed precisely by multiplying those very Jung dichotomies. A little later, the St. Petersburg mathematician Reinin brought a mathematical basis under this hypothesis, on the basis of which a stable definition was established - the signs of Reinin. Grigory Reinin, from a mathematical point of view, substantiated the signs as follows: from X and Y, two orthogonal binary signs, we get X * Y - a binary sign, which in turn is also considered orthogonal to the previous two. In general, it is possible to obtain 2 ^ (n-1) -n derivatives of orthogonal attributes (naturally, in the presence of n independent dichotomies), including derivatives of derivatives. Accordingly, by multiplying these four Jungian independent dichotomies, we obtain eleven derivative features.

Mathematical substantiation of signs

Grigory Reinin proved, using mathematical methods, in addition, that 16 well-known socionic types can be divided into four signs, they can be broken down in 11 more ways.

There are signs of Rainin (the table shows this). But, as was revealed by Reinin, the already known 4 signs are far from a complete set of non-correlating (orthogonal) signs, and by multiplying those 4, we get another eleven derived signs. Some socionics argue that the identified signs of Rainin are equal, and derivatives can be obtained from any four independent dichotomies.

Today, in the age of maximum information availability, it’s enough to just find any. These are, among other things, the Reinin signs (test or TIM calculator, such as informational metabolism). The more common groups are: rationality - irrational, logic - ethics, introversion - extraversion and sensorics - intuition. The introduction of additional features, as well as the formation of a table and test, greatly simplified the process of determining the type, which served as a big leap to the development of socionics as a science.