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A person of modern society needs to satisfy many needs in communication, social interaction, socialisation, work, social security, social trust, social justice, belonging to a reference group (“WE”), self-affirmation, self-fulfilment, self-actualisation, self-improvement, a certain social status, search and realisation of the meaning of life, success, recognition, respect, etc. However, for various reasons, many people are unable to meet a significant number of these social needs, resulting in psychosocial deprivation, which negatively affects their well-being, mental states, self-esteem, development, actions, behaviour, and activities. However, in psychological science, in fact, there are no developments on the nature and content of psychosocial deprivation of human and its impact on the human psyche, development, behaviour, and activities. The purpose of the study is to identify the essence and main aspects of psychosocial deprivation. Psychoenergetic and energy-psychofunctional approaches are used, as well as methods of analysis, synthesis, abstraction, concretisation, comparison, generalisation, and grouping. Psychosocial deprivation of a person is a course of more or less powerful destructive processes in the functioning of their psyche, caused by underdevelopment or immaturity, deformation, destruction, or negative change of the relevant mental parameters due to dissatisfaction with the subject of certain social needs necessary for the person's normal life and development. It arises from the fact that a person fails to meet certain social needs for a long time, which, objectifying in the psyche, change, i.e., inhibit development, do not develop, deform, destroy or change the parameters of its cognitive, value-motivational, emotional, volitional, and activity-executive spheres, based on which destructive processes in the functioning of these spheres and the psyche in general are generated. Knowledge of the essence and main aspects of psychosocial deprivation will allow: at the theoretical level – to continue research on its impact on the psyche of people of all ages, as well as their development, wellbeing, mental states, behaviour and activities; in practice – to develop psychotherapeutic psychological measures for human adaptation to new social conditions, prevention, and elimination of negative consequences of its influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]