Valery Kourinsky

Valery Kourinsky (1939 — 2015) is a Ukrainian philosopher, scientist, poet and musician, the author of a new scientific direction - PostPsychology. He gave hundreds of lectures on PostPsychologic Autodidactics, as well as on Philosophy of Health, Theory of Friendship, Theory of Skill and improvisation. Post-Psychology is a further development of psychology. It uses modern communication techniques to get the latest scientific descoveries on a human.
Valery Kourinsky was born in Chervonoarmiysk (Donetsk District) to Antonina and Alexander Kourinsky. His grandfather was a merchant. His mother was well-educated, she played piano, studied French; his father worked as an accountant, but also spoke foreign languages - German, Polish, Hungarian, and sang to children from opera arias. Parents have taught Valery and his older brother Yuriy to value music, arts and languages.

Valery lived through WWII and a German concentration camp when he was two. Unfortunately, the secret police kept continually questioning all the families, which returned from there, making life after the war even more unbearable in addition to economic hardships.

Education had always been a priority in the family and most of post-war family earnings were spent on it. When Valery was 13, his mother died. His father continued to help him in his studies. Many letters confirm the close father-son relationship.
While studying at Lugansk Music Academy (viola) and then at Kyiv Conservatory, Valery Kourinsky mastered not only music but languages, poetry writing and philosophy. Using his own methods as described in his book “Autodidactics”, Valery Kourinsky learned to speak more than 100 languages. He shared his methodologies with students during lectures and trainings. He was a speaker and an honored participant of many conferences and forums.

Valery Kourinsky patented the ideas of language studying, linguistics and the Govorunko toy. He is the author of science and cultural mono-drama performances by Theater of Thought. For many years people could attend performances of that theater in Kyiv, Moscow and abroad. Within the scope of that theater, Tabachuk-TV has aired the personal program of Valery Kourinsky “Nothing about everything, or everything about nothing”.
Valery Kourinsky is the author of more than 5000 sonnets, poetry and prose works, most of them are yet to be published. He is also the author of texts to many songs to music of the famous Ihor Shamo, Yevhen Stankovich, Valentyn Silvestrov. He wrote more than 2 000 music pieces. Using his own methods, Valery trained and recovered his injured hand, even though doctors did not believe in such possibility. After recovering, he mastered Paganini’s 24 Caprices, in addition to his quite large repertoire as a musician and gave a magnificent concert at National Chamber Music Hall.
In 1990—2006 many books of Valery Kourinsky were published in Russian and Ukrainian (scientific monographs, poetry and prose): Self-Teaching Reflections, When There is No Governess, Mouth Aerobics, Empty Multitudes (prose), Sonnets, PostPsycologic Autodidactics (two volumes), TripleBook and Aphorisms, Chords, Mouth Aerobics, Ukrainian Autodidactics, Heading Toward the Near Future.
Links
* Personal site of Valery Kourinsky
* Valery Kourinsky on TV

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