Main event of the decade

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иЮль–2013  Профессиональная ПсихотераПевтическая Газета 

professional practice of psychotherapy and counseling in Europe and Asia, 

the different interpretation of the profession and the typical problems and 

hazard on the way of young psychotherapists, as well as self-perception of 

professional psychotherapists in different countries. Furthermore the future 

development of the psychotherapeutic profession in Eurasia will be discussed.

WHEN Is A PsyCHOTHErAPIsT A sCIENTIsT?

Omar gelo – Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Salento, Italy and Sigmund 

Freud University Vienna, Austria.

When talking about psychotherapy, we are faced with the necessity of 

distinguishing the practice of psychotherapy (i.e., psychotherapy practice) 

from the science of psychotherapy (i.e., psychotherapy science). While actually 

every clinician knows well what it means to be a psychotherapy practitioner, 

there is actually a struggle with the question “when is a psychotherapy a 

scientist?” The present speech tries to shed light on this question.

EFFECTIVE MODEL OF INTErACTION sPECIALIsTs IN THE 

FIELD OF PsyCHOLOgy AND PsyCHOTHErAPy

Bogdan Bozhuk – PhD in medicine, Assistant National Medical University 

AABogomolets, clinical psychologist, member of the Professional 

Psychotherapeutic League, President of NGO «Ukrainian association of 

physicians-psychologists». Ukraine, Kiev. 

Nowadays there is a constantly increasing number of professionals who 

deliver aid to patients with the psychic disorders. If treatment of mental 

illness by psychiatrists does not bring questions, features of assist by 

psychotherapists and psychologists remain unresolved and contain many 

contradictory positions, without solutions which is impossible to provide a 

complete view of the assistance for persons who need it.

HAPPINEss, QUALITy OF LIFE, HEALTH IN THE sysTEMIC VIEW

gianpaolo Lombardi – Psychotherapist and psychiatrist at the Insitute of 

Family Therapy of Florence in Florenc, Insitute of Family Therapy of Pisa-Livorno 

in Pisa, public health service (A.S.L, Ser.T) in Florence, teacher of relational and 

family therapy, member of Italian Society of Psychiatry (SIP), member of Italian 

Association of Institutes of Family Therapy (AIFT). Italy, Florence – Pisa.

Happiness, Quality of life, Health are three similar concepts in everyday 

language, but very different in a reconstruction from a historical and 

epistemological point of view. Heraclitus, Aristotle, Epicurus, Democritus 

speak of happiness from a philosophical approach. K. Galbraith, who 

observed how the welfare economy had failed to promote a harmonious 

development of all societies.

Erich Fromm in «to have or to be» poses the problem of existence of 

way of life based on having: “I am what I have and I consume”. From year 

1970 onwards begins to exist the right to expect an overall well-being; in 

essence, the general clinical picture of the patient’s life goes beyond the 

symptoms expressed.

The Easterlin paradox or paradox of happiness 1974 teaches us how the 

“systemic therapists” the therapists using systemic thinking, in the broad, 

sense,are central in being custodians of “relational goods”. Actually there is 

an increasingly difficult to distinguish “normality” and “pathology”, given 

the complexity of the term «Health», and the prevention in today’s society 

could be the kind of care more consistent from a postmodern perspective.

My observation is that, the concept of quality of life, could become, 

more and more, an interesting parameter to be investigated in a path of 

family psychotherapy and research; more coherent, from an epistemological 

perspective, than clinical evaluation.

VOLUNTEErINg As PrEPArATION FOr PrOFEssIONAL 

PsyCHOLOgICAL ACTIVITy

Irina Mogilevkina – chair for the Youth Section of PPL in Saint-Petersburg.

Volunteer services is one of long-present actual form of social initiative 

and the tool for solution of some social problems. Volunteering determine 

important task in its infancy of professional psychological career. Such 

important tasks as entree in professional life and mobilization of personal 

eventual possibilities make an impact and improve the motivation for self-

knowing with help of personal psychotherapy, for participation in group of 

inter- and supervisions.

PsyCHIATry AND THE MAss MEDIA. THE rIgHT TO A LIFE 

WITHOUT sTIgMA

Ekaterina Misevich – Dr., chef of rehabilitation team in N. Novgorod Psychiatric 

Clinic №2, psychotherapeutist, the advisory member of the Russian Professional 

Psychotherapeutic League. Russia, Nizhny Novgorod.

Organization competent interaction psychiatrists with journalists – 

warranty reduce the anxiety of the population in relation to people 

with experience of coping with mental disorders. Appointment of the 

regional specialist psychiatric services for media relations of – way to 

ensure journalists timely reliable information on matters of public interest. 

Development of rehabilitation programmes in psychiatric clinics – a 

way of enriching the cultural life of the region through the inclusion of 

creative products of the patients in «small groups» into the municipal 

social projects.

CrEATINg AN ONLINE FOrUM OF sUICIDAL PrEVENTION

Maria Velikanova – PhD student, Lorraine University (Metz, France), Saint-

Petersburg State University (Russia).

On August 1, 2011 a forum entitled “Choose the life” was opened on the 

site: www.nosuicid.ru, aimed at suicide prevention, helping to overcome 

suicidal tendencies, and rehabilitation after suicide attempts. The site 

consists of a forum and an informative section comprising various articles 

for those who do not want to live anymore, to relatives of those who have 

attempted a suicide, and to those who work in helping relationship. The 

forum is the centre of our activities; in this paper we discuss the way we 

have come to our particular form of activity (open forum), and what we 

are doing today.

THE LIFE LINE PATHOBIOgrAPHICAL МETHOD AND sELF-

ATTITUDE IN DrUg ADDICTs

Mikhail Budnikov – clinical psychologist at the medical center «Behterev», 

postgraduate student at the department of clinical psychology at Herzen 

University of Russia, Saint-Petersburg.

We studied 66 drug addicts carrying out the program of inpatient 

rehabilitation in the medical center «Behterev». We used the Life line 

method to investigate crisises and conflicts in a biography and in a system 

of attitudes of an addictive personality. Such defects of self-consciousness 

as an interruption of Self continuity and a disharmony of self-attitude 

were revealed. An accurate psychological diagnostics and individual 

psychotherapy allow to harmonize self-attitude and to lessen the need to 

abuse drugs which is an illusory and compensatory way of Self defence.

COLLECTINg CLIENTs’ FEEDBACK IN PsCHyCHOLOgICAL 

TrEATMENTs

Victor Bogomolov – psychologist, centre of social and psychological 

adaptation and development of adolescents “Perekrestok”.

Currently there is a worldwide trend towards using clients’ feedback 

measures in psychotherapeutic and psychological work, when clients 

are given the possibility of evaluating the process and outcome of such 

services. Using feedback reduces risk of premature termination and increases 

effectiveness of psychological treatment. Russian versions of Outcome rating 

scale and Session rating scale will be presented as the easiest-to-use and 

briefest measures in worldwide practice.

THE THErAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF ATONAL MUsIC

Anastasia Kozhevnikova – student of the 5th course of faculty Clinical 

psychology of the Public budgetary educational institution of higher education 

«The Astrakhan state medical academy» Ministries of Health of the Russian 

Federation.

Application of atonal music in a musiс therapy is insufficiently studied, 

but it is represented effective. In work with teens with deviant behavior it 

causes less than resistance, than classical music, leading to more expressed 

decrease in level of anxiety and strengthening of adaptation resources of 

the personality.

PsyCHOTHErAPEUTIC TrEATMENT OF FEMALE CLIENTs 

WITH COMPULsIVE OVErEATINg PrOBLEMs

yuliya Motalova – student of the South Federal University, a member of PPC 

GA. The Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don.

Taking into consideration the traumatic experience in the relationships 

of such clients and their parents, we may avoid one-sided perspective 

of the disturbed eating behavior as solely the habitual eating pattern 

(not taking into account the relational component) and avoid accidental 

reproduction of the traumatic situation. Working with the client`s episodes 

of hyper excitation having their roots in earlier relationships, and avoiding 

the frustration of the client`s intention for contact allow us to create a 

supporting introject and reduce the clients` need to delimit their anxiety 

with the help of overeating.

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