In a context of theories of person of A. Adler, G.S. Sullivan, A. Maslow, K. Rogers and A. Bandura the system of conditions, significant for professional success of the subject of scientific and pedagogical activity comes to light, representations of «successful» and «unsuccessful» teachers of the higher school about the factors necessary for achievement of professionalism are analyzed, their conditionality by activity of subsystems of mentality according to functional model of psyche of the person developed by R.H. Tugushev is considered.
