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иЮль–2013  Профессиональная ПсихотераПевтическая Газета 

Last two centuries have seen remarkable progress and outstanding 

development achieved by the mankind in the fields of science and 

technology but unfortunately, this development came at a cost. It came at 

a cost of our social, psychological and emotional well-being. In spite of all 

the growth and development, we could merely manage to evolve into a 

fractured society with larger number of disillusioned individuals.

The concept of scientific spirituality entails that science alone can be 

destructive if there is no spiritual way of thinking behind it and spirituality 

without a scientific approach can well be a superstition. A newer approach, 

where best of both are considered is required to provide something valuable 

to the next generation.

MODErN TENDENCIEs IN DEVELOPMENT OF 

PsyCHOPATHOLOgy: sOCIETy, PsyCHIATry AND 

PsyCHOTHErAPy 

Mikhail reshetnikov – Professor, MD, PhD, is a Meritorious Scientist of Russia, 

Rector of the East-European Psychoanalytic Institute (St-Petersburg, Russia), 

the ECPP Board Member (Vienne, Austria) and the President of the National 

Branch ECPP-Russia; the Chairman of the All-Russian Council for Psychotherapy 

and Consulting (Moscow, Russia), a member of All-Russian Professional 

Psychotherapeutic League, Russian Psychoanalytic Society, WCP, EAP. 

In this paper current situation related to mental health problems is 

reviewed, and some modern developments in psychiatry and psychotherapy 

are discussed. The material is based mostly on Russian experience, which is 

explored in the context of world tendencies. 

AWArDINg OF EUrOPEAN AND WOrLD CErTIFICATEs OF 

PsyCHOTHErAPy

COLLECTIVE PHOTOsHOOTINg

CONTINUATION OF THE PLENAry sEssION

ETHICAL EFFOrT As A PsyCHOLOgICAL CATEgOry AND A 

THErAPEUTIC ACTION

Alexander Bondarenko – corresponding member of national academy of 

pedagogical sciences of Ukraine, Dr. of Science (Psychology), Professor, head 

of psychology chair at Kiev national linguistic university, Vice-president of the 

PPL. Ukraine, Kiev.

The paper deals with a psychological analysis of the ethical effort as a 

central moment of personal transformations in a patient who suffers in 

victimizing interpersonal relationship.

LOVE AND ErOTIC IN PsyCHOTHErAPy

Nicole Aknin – professor, psychoanalyst; rector of the Sigmund Freud University 

Paris; executive member of the World Council for Psychotherapy and European 

Association for Psychotherapy. Paris, France.

PsyCHOTHErAPy: CONFLICT BETWEEN MODErNIsM & 

TrADITION 

Ali Mohammad goudarzi – PHD., faculty Member, University of Welfare & 

Rehabilitation Sciences, Board member of the AFP, Tehran, Iran.

In today’s world where globalization has dominated over all of human 

life, as humans achieve a more comfortable access to new technologies, 

environmental destruction, loss of small towns and creation of mega cities 

and lifestyle changes are amongst the problems facing the people living in 

the globalization era. Living in the traditions era especially in small towns 

had particular features that less affected the environment and human 

lifestyle. Traditional life style was based on family, intimacy and tranquility 

while the life style in postmodern era (globalization) has created a huge gap 

between the family members. Art, architecture and urban figure have lost 

its authenticity and genuineness in the postmodern world and human has 

been gifted by pollution, traffic, and lack of time and eventually stress as a 

result of mega cities development. In the modern industrial world, human 

consumes more hence is less healthy. In this regard psychotherapy and 

psychotherapists have responsibilities to undertake. They need to reconcile 

human with nature and consequently make life easier for them. This paper 

attempts to discuss the difficulties of modern life in comparison with the 

traditional life. 

IMAgEs IN PsyCHOTHErAPy 

rodolfo De Bernard – psychiatrist, psychotherapist, founder and director of 

the Institute for Family Psychotherapy in Florence, president of the International 

Association of Family Mediators, the founder of the American Academy of Family 

Therapy; vice-president of the European Association for Psychotherapy, president 

and founder of the European Association for Family Therapy. Florence, Italy.

«PsyCHOTHErAPEUTIC PErsONALITy DIsOrDEr» As A 

PrOFEssIONAL HAZArD

Milivojevic Zoran – president of the Serbian association for transactional 

analysis, president of the union of psychotherapeutic associations of Serbia, 

author of many books on psychotherapy. Belgrade, Serbia.

Regardless of the chosen psychotherapeutic modality, all psychotherapists 

work with their clients by communicating, by sending therapeutic messages. 

This means that in our professional work psychotherapists use their own 

personalities. The process of psychotherapeutic training could be seen as 

process of adapting the candidate’s personality to fit the proposed ideal in 

order to provide optimal service to clients. 

It is well known that professions in which professionals use their 

personalities to do their work can lead to professional distortion – 

professional deformation of the personality. As psychotherapy is a 

separate, well-defined and scientifically based profession, it can lead to 

unhealthy personality development in the psychotherapist – the so-called 

«Psychotherapeutic Personality Disorder» or, in short, «PPD». 

In order to fit the proposed ideal psychotherapist in the given 

psychotherapeutic modality, people can develop some of the following 

signs of PPD: 

•  A person reduces himself/herself to only the professional self.

•  Feeling that profession of psychotherapist gives him/her feeling of 

worthiness or even superiority.

•  Low quality of non-professional life (incapacity for intimacy).

•  Good for the client, but not for himself/herself.

•  Prone to burn out syndrome.

•  Loser in nonprofessional aspects of life.

•  Pursuit for super-normality (ideal normality). 

•  Physical resemblance to a charismatic psychotherapist (a walking Freud, 

the reincarnation of Perlz, etc.).

•  At the end, a victim of the profession.

PPD will be presented within Self-gram model (Milivojević, 2000), in which 

the private self, intimate self and public (professional) self are compared. 

Whether as beginners in the field of psychotherapy, or as trainers and 

supervisors, we should know about this phenomenon and help ourselves 

and colleagues not to be victims of our profession. 

THErAPy By MEANs OF CrEATIVE sELF-EXPrEssION FOr 

rUssIAN PATIENTs sUFFErINg FrOM THEIr INFErIOrITy 

FEELINg

Mark Burno – professor, Dr. med., Dr. Sc., department of Psychotherapy and 

Sexology of the Russian Medical Academy of Post Education (Moscow), Vice-

President of the Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League. Moscow, Russia.

Such patients usually feel in their moral sufferings nationally close to 

(consonant with) the sufferings of many characters created by Dostoyevsky, 

Tolstoy, Chekhov, Andrey Platonov. My 50-years experience of working with 

such patients proves that in the process of treatment they get interested in 

studying the peculiarities of their own soul capable of different creative self-

expression so as to acquire for themselves some proper for their own nature 

healing spiritual effect no matter how modest it can be. They deeply and 

with great wish and use for themselves study the lives of different people 

famous in the history of culture who suffered from their inferiority feeling 

and could be even mentally ill. Such patients are usually happy that their 

own feelings and sufferings have so much in common with the feelings 

and problems of those famous people. The report contains examples of 

serious improvement in the state of some patients while getting this kind of 

therapy worked out in detail today. This kind of treatment is connected with 

a concrete name and has become our national psychotheraputic school – it 

is «Therapy by means of creative self-expression by M.Burno».

AsPECTs OF TrANsPErsONAL PsyCHOTHErAPy. 

CHALLENgEs AND rICHNEss OF AN APPrOACH BETWEEN 

sCIENCE AND sPIrITUALITy

Dr. Ingo Benjamin Jahrsetz – Honorary chairman of the Spiritual Emergence 

Network, President of European Transpersonal Association.

Today there is a vast controversary discussion if Transpersonal 

Psychotherapy earns the validation as an acknowledge branch of 

psychotherapy. 

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