[2][3] After graduation, he continued to work as an assistant, and later as an associate professor at the Department of Social and Pedagogical Psychology of the Kyiv State University.

[4] Together with Vadim Bleikher [uk], he founded the Department of Psychodiagnostics and Medical (renamed to Clinical in 2008) Psychology.

[3] In 1974, he defended his thesis on the subject “Features of perceptual activity of patients with epilepsy and schizophrenia with weakly structured visual stimulation”.

[3] Burlachuk prepared his candidate thesis under the authority of psychologist Vadim Bleikher on the basis of material collected at the Kyiv Clinical (Psychoneurological) Hospital No.21.

Due to the use of the Rorschach test in his work, Burlachuk faced difficulties in defending his thesis since "Western studies" were considered to be unacceptable in the USSR.

Despite the Dissertation Council being partly prejudiced, Burlachuk managed to defend the work at the Leningrad Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute.

[3] From 1991 to 2005, he had been chairman of the specialized commission for the defense of doctoral and master's theses in psychology at the Kyiv National University.