Family psychotherapist Anna Varga, after graduating from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, conducted consultations at the first psychological consultation in the history of the USSR, founded at the same faculty. She taught at the Lenin Pedagogical Institute for many years, but in the late 80s, at the first opportunity, she left the government service and began to work closely on family counseling. She devotes a lot of effort to introducing new methods and uniting colleagues - in particular, she founded the Society of Family Consultants and Psychotherapists. In 2014, she opened a master’s program in Systemic Family Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychology of the Higher School of Economics. In his free time, he enjoys discussing the problems of fathers and children in the press, loves raising children, animals and plants, traveling and taking long walks around cities. He really doesn’t like to wait and can hardly stand empty small talk. Member of the Snob project since March 2010
The city where I live
Birthday
Where was she born?
in the same Moscow
Who was born to
In a family of scientists. Grandfather is an academician, economist, father and mother are scientists, physiologists.
Where and what did you study?
School, Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology, internships and advanced training in many places and with whom. I think that the names of my teachers will not say anything. I will name only the most important things. Internship in systemic family psychotherapy, Milan School, 1991-1993; internship in psychodrama, Scandinavian Academy of Psychodrama, 1991-1994. I am a member of several international professional bodies and associations.
Where and how did you work?
First, several years at the Department of General Psychology of Moscow State University, then at the country's first psychological consultation. It was located at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University and was called the Advisory Center for Psychological Assistance to Parents Having Difficulties in Raising Children. This was in the late 70s. She first taught at the V.I. Pedagogical Institute. Lenin. Now he is some kind of university. At the first opportunity, in 1987-1988, she left public service. I consider psychotherapeutic practice to be my main activity. When the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis opened, a private educational institution that improves the qualifications of psychologists, I began to work there. Quite quickly, a department of systemic family psychotherapy was created there, which I head.
Academic degrees and titles
Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Professor at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Awarded in 1993 by the American Association of Family Psychotherapists and the AVANTA Society for the development of the theory of Virginia Satir in Russia.
What did you do?
She didn't do anything like that. Wrote articles and books. She created a professional association - the Society of Family Consultants and Psychotherapists.
Achievements
In my opinion, there are no special achievements.
Public affairs
No business. The most active social life was in my youth, when, together with my first husband, dissident Vladimir Tolts, who works as a journalist for Radio Liberty, they helped prisoners on political charges (“anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”), carried broadcasts, distributed samizdat, “Chronicle of current events”, etc. The last surge was in 1991 - three days at the White House. After this there was complete social lethargy.
Important life events
Free access to information, freedom of movement around the world - this is what we received as a result of perestroika. Birth of children. Birth of a grandson. A happy family life that came to me at a fairly mature age.
First created and invented
A fundamental training program for systemic psychotherapists - together with their colleagues, of course.
Brought to light
It seems she didn't bring anyone out. Perhaps only one dishonest and greedy publisher who published a counterfeit. I won the case against him—in my opinion, I went to trial for the first time in my life.
Successful projects
Introduced my Russian colleagues to Murray Bowen’s theory of emotional systems. She organized training in this method almost first-hand - we were taught by Bowen's students Peter Teitelman and Katherine Baker, the project lasted four years. This method, very popular in the USA, was not known at all in Russia. And there he works very well both in providing psychological assistance to families and in business consulting.
Failed projects
There were no categorical failures. A not very successful project is our professional association: the Society of Family Consultants and Psychotherapists. I thought it would be a more active and dynamic community. The result was such a low-functional association - a live website and professional supervision. Everything else died without being born. Perhaps a community of practicing psychotherapists, each of whom sits in his own ivory tower, and cannot be different? In a sense, it cannot be different without the involvement of professional managers. But we don’t attract them, because we are afraid of them: they will drive us and force us, God forbid.
Blood and horror, sacrifices and ancient rituals. Corpses of women in cold doorways. This is good old England - the era of Jack the Ripper. It was here that FSB officer Danila Platonov was brought from our world by the hunt for a dangerous criminal. But now he will have to pursue the most mysterious maniac in the history of mankind. English manners, English murders, English black humor. Find out who is hiding under the sign of the Ripper!..
Diana Udovichenko
Ripper Sign
Thanks to my favorite writer Zotov for his friendly support when writing this series.
Prologue
My head was splitting open, tiny red explosions flashed under my closed eyelids, each time piercing my eyeballs with sharp pain. My whole body felt like I had been in a meat grinder: every cell ached, and, it seemed, even my hair. My bones ached and twisted, like an old man’s in bad weather. My mouth was dry and there was a nasty taste. I was breathing heavily, with wheezing. In general, Dan felt as if he was about to die. He carefully opened his right eye - and then closed it with a groan: even the dim twilight of the room intensified his headache.
But consciousness turned on, processing the received crumbs of information. Heavy curtains with lambrequins that do not let in daylight. Near the window is a monumental desk, littered with all sorts of things. It seemed there was a pile of papers, an inkwell, jars, test tubes in a rack and several smoking pipes. Dan didn’t have time to notice anything else. Oh yes, there were also bookshelves and a bookcase in the corner, also pretty cluttered, and a violin lay on the chest of drawers next to it...
Feeling around with his hands, he realized that he was sitting in a deep chair. Apparently, he slept in it for a long time, which is why his body became numb. A soft wool blanket covered his knees.
Memory slowly tossed and turned, thoughts clung to each other - sometimes they turned in place, sometimes they froze, like ungreased gears of an old mechanism.
So what happened? He, FSB captain Daniil Platonov (at least Dan had no doubt about this), participated in the seizure of the office of a major businessman and equally seasoned criminal Vadim Senkevich. Nastya, Dan’s girlfriend, was also there, working undercover, and of course, did not leave the scene of the operation. Dan drove the businessman into a corner, then something strange happened. I remembered the ink stain that had engulfed both the criminal businessman and him and Nastya.
Then it turned out that this clown created a space-time portal that threw everyone out of Ravensburg in the 15th century - he escaped persecution, as they say. This very mystical hole transferred their consciousnesses to other bodies. There were inquisitors, witches, demons, werewolves, bonfires, innocently murdered virgins, crazy monks, cannibals, monsters, ghosts, mysterious temples, crowds of fanatics and Beelzebub as the apotheosis of all madness - a complete set from a fantasy novel. Dan, Nastya and Senkevich miraculously escaped death.
Next was medieval Japan - Dan shuddered, remembering it. Strange customs, strange people, no less strange evil spirits, a blurred line between good and evil - all this made life quite difficult. There, the three of them fought with the Tokugawa shogun himself, who eventually turned out to be a powerful nue demon who came straight from the depths of Japanese hell - jigoku - to enslave people, turning them into cattle, a source of meat for evil spirits.
The picture of the battle with the ugly entity was vividly presented. He, Dan, is a bloody blind ronin with a sword made of stardust, thanks to which he managed to cope with the demons. Naked Nastya-kitsune with fox ears and a fluffy tail, boldly fighting with the Snow Maiden. Senkevich in the guise of a stern, middle-aged samurai, intently conjuring over the portal. A purple blot in space, behind which - so much one hoped - there was a house...
That time everything went wrong again. Miyamoto Musashi appeared, who turned out to be not a great swordsman at all. That is, not only a swordsman... And now Dan is here. Where exactly? The past was remembered, but the present, the reality in which he was now, while the fog enveloped him.
One thing was immediately clear: Dan was again in the wrong time. Although he no longer hoped for such happiness. Something was wrong with the space-time portal, and he suspected that Sienkiewicz knew more about it than he was saying.
So, not at home again. This is bad. But in a fairly civilized era, this is good. I wonder who he is now? And where is Nastya? However, no matter where she is, she will be easy to find using deduction...
A bright light penetrated through my eyelids, causing another migraine attack. Dan groaned, covering his eyes with his hand. Immediately a stream of cool, fresh wind rushed into the room, dispersing the stagnant air that reeked of tobacco smoke. Someone walked towards the chair, stood over it and said with gentle reproach:
– You are ruining yourself. Maybe you should at least abstain from morphine, Sherlock?
Chapter 1
Dan
Sherlock?.. Isn't it Holmes? I remembered what I had briefly seen in the room: a table with papers, test tubes, and magnifying glasses could very well belong to the detective. The smoking pipe indicated the same thing - Holmes was depicted everywhere with just such a stylishly curved, classic one. And even a violin...
But excuse me, how is this? Holmes is a fictional character, just like Watson, and Moriarty, and all the other heroes of Conan Doyle’s books. It is well known: the great detective with his deduction is a figment of the writer’s imagination. It is impossible to travel through time and suddenly find yourself in a story.
Yes, a very, very serious conversation was ahead with Senkevich. I wish I knew where he was, this figure of mysticism... Dan sharply opened his eyes and groaned: the walls of the room moved to the sides, it was as if someone was driving hot needles into his temples, his arms and legs were wrenched in pain, threatening to turn into convulsions. My stomach churned and nausea rose in my throat.
Someone nearby chuckled sympathetically. Dan closed his eyes again, then carefully, slowly opened his eyelids. I tried to focus my gaze for a long time, and finally, when the room stopped swaying and was only shaking slightly, I saw in front of me a tall, broad-shouldered blond man with a soft, good-natured face, on which a gentle girlish blush bloomed. Surrounded by reddish eyelashes, light blue eyes looked at Dan with sincere sympathy. The man looked to be about thirty to thirty-five years old. He was wearing a perfectly pressed checkered tweed suit, with a quarter-folded newspaper sticking out of the pocket. The man was holding an authentic-looking syringe in his hand. Dan was suddenly convinced: this blond man was Sienkiewicz, who, by the way, was Dr. John Watson.
The situation was getting crazier. A terrible suspicion crept in: if he himself is Holmes, and Senkevich is Watson, then who is Nastya?..
“Dear friend,” said Watson-Sienkiewicz in a beautiful baritone, clearly articulating and carefully pronouncing each word, “finally believe me: you are killing yourself...” He paused, his ruddy face acquiring an astonished expression. He shook his straw head, then said in Russian, but with a noble English “r”:
“You're suffering from morphine withdrawal, idiot.” And if you don’t stop, you’ll... p-p-p-p-i... mu-u-u-u... p-i-i-i...
There was no strength to answer, Dan, continuing to hang limply in the chair, watched as the englishized Senkevich tried to pronounce some word. The poor fellow turned red, sweat appeared on his forehead, he squeaked helplessly, mooed and sprayed saliva. Dan even had a sneaking suspicion that the famous Doctor Watson suffered from a stutter, but Conan Doyle, in his concern for the charisma of the heroes, did not mention this. “They are not real,” Dan rebuked himself. “A product of the writer’s imagination. And Doyle is not a chronicler or a biographer.”
Meanwhile, Senkevich, spat angrily, said:
Dan, momentarily forgetting about his suffering, looked at him questioningly.
“It seems I fell into the body of a hypocrite,” Sienkiewicz explained angrily. – And his consciousness is very strong. It doesn’t allow me to swear, it’s an infection, my throat gets convulsed, and that’s all.
Dan grinned maliciously and fell back into a cloud of painful half-sleep.
“Okay, Holmes,” said Sienkiewicz primly. - Let me give you an injection. I’m sure this will ease the suffering, at least for a while... In general, stop with this dirty business, captain! A drug addict is an unreliable person.
Age: 58 years old.
Education: Lomonosov Moscow State University, majoring in psychology; training course in systemic family psychotherapy, Milan School; psychodrama training course at the Scandinavian School of Psychodrama.
Job: Head of the Department of Systemic Family Psychotherapy at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Chairman of the Board of the Society of Family Consultants Psychotherapists (OSKIP).
Regalia and titles: Candidate of Psychological Sciences, author of 54 scientific and popular science articles and two monographs; is a member of the EAP (European Psychotherapeutic Association), IFTA (International Association of Family Therapists).
About the systems approach
Literally a few years after I graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Western psychologists came to us en masse to bring “the good and the eternal.” And my generation of professionals enthusiastically absorbed everything they could then. But I was most fascinated by the systemic approach and family psychotherapy as one of its options. Why? Quite a random choice - the company was nicer. System theory appeared in the 60s of the 20th century and was based on cybernetic ideas. It believes that a person is a certain element of a variety of social systems, and his behavior is regulated by their dynamics and characteristics. And family is one of them.
The point is to see the family system as a whole, how its members interact with each other. Therefore, I invite everyone to the reception: mothers, fathers, children, grandparents, and even the nanny, if she lives in the family permanently. In a sense, a person does not have individual problems - they are considered only in the totality of family relationships. For example, parents bring their child to see a child psychologist because he refuses to go to school. They begin a therapeutic course with him, after each session he returns home, and all his efforts are in vain. After all, it’s not just about the child! You start to find out: “What do you think happens at home when you’re at school?” “Mom and dad are quarreling” - “And in front of you?” - “With me - no. And when I’m sick, they never quarrel at all.” And everything becomes obvious. By the way, it was with children's problems that family psychotherapy began - people came for the sake of their children, and then came to their own problems.
Psychology does not stand somewhere apart from social and historical processes. An entire era has changed: it was modern, it became postmodern. I started back in the “classics”, when it was believed that a psychotherapist knows how a family works and what can be done with clients so that they solve their problems. And now directiveness and expertise are becoming a thing of the past. And today we are far from sure that we know everything as it was 20 years ago. On the contrary, sometimes the client understands better what he really needs!
Why psychologists don't like managers
When about 15 years ago, the idea came up to organize the Society of Family Psychotherapists, I was full of illusions. I dreamed that we would be able to promote the profession, invite Western colleagues, create professional standards, and maybe even a law on psychotherapy. I was hoping for great achievements, but it turned out to be “like a trade union.” Here you need to understand who psychotherapists are. These are people who are marginal in their structure; they cannot be enthusiasts of any social movements. The psychologist is a slightly “purple” character, in the sense that he is subdepressive, and this is a professionally approved property.
We spend all our time in a very intense emotional field, because we communicate with people who are suffering, unhappy, and we need to empathize with them, otherwise why are we working at all? Some psychotherapists even have difficulty writing scientific articles. He mostly works in his office with clients and then goes to bed. We recently had a round table about professional deformation, and everyone unanimously confirmed that they want to communicate less, there is almost no social drive.
So, gathering all the psychotherapists with the hope that it would be a living and active organization was stupid on my part. But we somehow manage to exist for quite a long time. The problem is that if a manager comes to the Society, life immediately arises there, but the psychotherapists feel bad! I am glad that for my colleagues the highest value is their direct work, and not meetings. It’s good that there is a place where they can come, discuss their difficult cases, and receive professional support.
About why the formula “mom, dad, me” no longer works
The institution of family is seriously changing. Moreover, both in the world and in Russia (although here, as always, it is a little slower). After all, all formal reasons for marriage disappear! Why is it needed? If we remove the emotional side, then there is no point in getting married. Especially if you imagine an urban bi-career family, when both husband and wife work, they have no children and there is no idea that a child needs both parents. Today, all household chores are outsourced: a nanny sits with the children, a housekeeper cleans the house, we eat in restaurants. This was unimaginable before! The life of the family required the participation of each member; at least two were needed to exist comfortably.
And today new types of families are emerging: homosexual, with adopted children, almost with animals instead of children. Everyone already knows about guest marriages, in which partners meet only on weekends and on vacation. A new phenomenon is the “binuclear family,” when people give birth to children in one marriage, get divorced, then give birth to new ones, and then everyone communicates with each other. They cooperate in raising children and treat ex-husbands and wives in a civilized manner. And, most importantly, everyone is very comfortable! We have become more free in this regard. And this is not bad or good - it’s just a phenomenon that needs to be accepted and studied. What the consequences will be is also still a question.
But it only seems to us that before there was such a standard family (man - woman - children), and now suddenly everything has changed dramatically. In Christian culture this is a monogamous marriage, but in Islam, for example, everything is different: a man can have several wives, with children from each of them. And this is also a family. There is simply a type of family that prevails in a given culture, and any person is a social animal, and therefore follows stereotypes. But now everything is changing quickly, and some part of society is worried about these changes. Firstly, it is generally afraid of change. After all, the point is not that marriage changes its meaning, but that different generations have different meanings and values. The older generation is afraid that the new generation does not reproduce the values that seem important to them. I think the options for families will become increasingly diverse. And this is good, because any increase in diversity is our resource.
About civil marriage and why divorce is not the end of the world
It seems to me completely unimportant whether you have a piece of paper or not. It is unknown how necessary this is. It is always difficult to determine this line: are we together because we want to, or are we together because we have to? From the point of view of family psychotherapy, if you find yourself in the same territory, eat, sleep together, and exchange fluids, then you are a family. Therefore, all these marriage registrations and marriage contracts are only needed when it comes to property. And if you have nothing to share, then why? But here again the stereotypes and fears of the older generation arise. Although, if you really want to pack your suitcase and leave home, it will not matter to you whether there is a stamp in your passport or not.
In my practice, it has happened more than once that a husband or wife decides that they are definitely getting a divorce, and even looked at the option of a new family. And at the same time they come with their spouse to a psychotherapist, claiming that they want to mend a falling apart relationship. Everyone here has their own motives: one is afraid for the spouse they are leaving, the other wants to see if the psychotherapist can help. But I’m not an investigator, my starting position is to believe the client. Infidelity is often hidden. A man cheats on his wife, but does not want to divorce her or leave his mistress. Then he says: “Firstly, nothing happened, and secondly, my wife is crazy if she thinks so.” And under this sauce he takes her to a psychologist. In general, if a person behaves in such a way that he “gets caught,” it means that he wants to say something to his partner. A love letter on the screen of a computer that is turned on often means something. Thus, often the cheating person wants, as paradoxical as it may sound, to strengthen their relationship in marriage. He is trying to bring about some change. And this is better than sitting and both suffering.
There are more divorces. Obviously, this trend leads to the fact that people manage to be in several unions during their lives: they converge, diverge, change partners. And this, in turn, means that the number of people who are never married is growing. But if people feel bad together, divorce itself is not the end of the world. Except in cases where it is conflicting, if one of the spouses is literally destroyed by this event, he considers it a collapse or a shame. Then there remains an injury that you have to work with for a long time.
About childhood
Now, as in the Middle Ages, childhood is disappearing altogether as a social category. The information barrier between generations is collapsing. If previously, for a child to become an adult, he had to learn to read, now he can watch TV and surf the Internet. What the grandmother sees on TV, the granddaughter also sees. What is a child now? It is not clear how to teach him and what, because the idea that the child needs something special has disappeared. In the Middle Ages, as soon as he mastered speech, he immediately became part of the adult community. If you look at paintings, for example, by the artist Pieter Bruegel, there are peasants drinking in a tavern, and children nearby.
Today, at the age of five and at thirty-five, they dress, eat and spend their leisure time the same way. Those same “kids” appear - adult children that everyone talks about. We do not have a general cultural understanding of what raising a child in a family means. Everyone begins their own madness: sometimes the child is taught reading, dancing, arithmetic and tennis at the same time, and sometimes they dress him in diapers until he is six years old. The problem is that the principles that helped their parents adapt socially do not work with modern children. You can no longer say, “Look at me and do as I do.” As sociologist Zygmunt Bauman wrote: “Parents are the people who give me pocket money.”
The socialization of children today takes place on the Internet, and not at school, in the yard or in clubs. But adults cannot keep up with the development of all these technologies and can no longer control children. I know a severely mentally retarded boy who easily finds cartoons on his laptop. And perhaps this gap between generations will only grow. I believe that in this situation it is important to maintain emotional ways of communication when parents and children experience similar feelings at the same time. They watch cartoons together, go to restaurants, and ski. This is a sign of emotional contact, and it is very important. But education from the point of view of “an officer and a citizen” has been completely destroyed. And maybe that’s where he should go.
About “liquid modernity”
The social environment cannot but influence the life of a family: sometimes it is a resource, sometimes a stressor. In our society, unfortunately, the second option works. It seems significant to me that an increasing number of children are leaving at the age of 14-15 to study abroad. This is an atypical phenomenon for our culture; in Russia, children live with their parents for quite a long time. This is not England, where at the age of 18 they are told goodbye. How sad it is if a family considers it lucky to send a child abroad, just to get away from here! They know nothing about him: what he eats, where he sleeps, with whom he communicates. So at least he sits with his back to you at the computer, but next to you! And this does not add happiness and harmony to the family. The less social anxiety, the happier the family. It cannot be the only stronghold in which one can escape from the outside world. Although now in Europe such apocalyptic sentiments are in vogue, when people plan to gather in shelters and dream of saving themselves together. But this is more of a fantasy.
People's relationships, including in family life, become more functional: a person most often needs a sexual partner, a companion for traveling, going to the movies, etc. This is what Zygmunt Bauman called “liquid modernity.” Relationships become impersonal. And here, of course, it could not happen without the Internet. It creates the illusion of intimacy - we sleep and eat together on Skype. I ask clients: “What do you like to do together?” And they: “Read each other’s blogs!” So they sit in different rooms.
New standards of behavior are being created on the Internet: emotional, sexual, new types of beauty. For example, young people watch pornography and do not understand that this is not the case in everyday life. That ordinary citizens have sex a little differently. But how can I explain it to him if watching pornography coincided with his personal sexual formation? He has already formed a false idea on an unconscious level. And then couples come to me who cannot fully make love without pornographic stimulation.
But in general, I try to take all these changes calmly, because it is better to accept the course of life than to pretend that nothing is happening. It’s even more interesting to work this way.
Families have become very diverse. And this diversity can be equally likely to be healthy and functional, or it can be dysfunctional. For example, the concept of “white marriage” has emerged, when people decide that they will not have sex with each other. Is this good or bad? Or an open marriage, when spouses can openly have relationships with other people. Is this good or bad? And there is also a deliberately childless marriage. There are also families where both parents work, and everything else, including children, is outsourced. Binuclear families have appeared, when after a divorce people continue to raise a child together, the new partners are in friendly contact with the old ones. If people feel good together, in any type of life arrangement, and no one makes unbearable internal compromises for the sake of togetherness, then today this is considered a functional family.
Thus, the first distinctive feature of the modern family is its diversity. The second important point is the disappearance of childhood. In addition to biological childhood (up to 5-7 years), there is the so-called socially constructed childhood: social ideas about who is considered a child, how children and adults differ, how to treat a child in the broadest sense, etc. Now social childhood is disappearing. This is a consequence of the global process of change in communication technologies. Therefore, the institution of education itself disappears - in its place comes the “raising” of a child. The child finds himself at the top of the family hierarchy - and as a result, both children and adults disappear from it. Because adults can only exist in it as a socially constructed category if there is childhood. All this leads to two negative consequences. Firstly, the family becomes child-centric (a child is born - married life disappears as a subsystem). The child begins to control everything, and this is bad for him - he becomes neurotic. He receives mutually exclusive information: on the one hand, he remains dependent on his parents in many ways (a small child cannot take care of himself, without adults outside the home he can simply die), on the other hand, in his family he is the king and god. Because of this, he does not have an adequate idea of his place in life, of his real capabilities.
When parents “serve” the child, do not set boundaries for him, and subordinate the life of the family to the children’s needs, they are deprived of such an important function as providing reliability and protection to the child. If adults are not the main ones in the family, then they are not protectors or support for the child. When you start working with such a family, you understand that, having built such an inverted hierarchy, they are not helpers for their child, and in general the therapeutic potential of such a family is very low. This is a very serious challenge for modern family therapy.
Varga Anna Yakovlevna,Moscow
Candidate of Psychological Sciences. Systemic family consultant.
Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, academic director of the educational program “Systemic Family Psychotherapy” at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Chairman of the Board of the Society of Family Consultants and Psychotherapists. Member of the International Family Therapy Association, European Association of Psychotherapists. Member of the Training Committee of the European Association of Family Psychotherapists.
In 1978 she graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. In 1991-1993 completed a training course in systemic family psychotherapy (Milan School. Trainer and supervisor Hana Weiner, AFTA trainer and IFTA President) and in 1991-1994. internship in psychodrama (Scandinavian Academy of Psychodrama).
In 1986 she defended her PhD thesis on the topic “Structure and types of parental relationships.”
After graduating from Moscow State University, she held appointments at the Advisory Center for Psychological Assistance to Parents Having Difficulties in Raising Children, the first psychological consultation in the history of the USSR, founded at the Faculty of Psychology.
1988–1990 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. Lenin.
In the late 1980s, she left government service to devote full time to family counseling.
1990–2014 - Head of the Department of Systemic Family Psychotherapy at the Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis.
Since 2014 he has been working at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Creator of a fundamental training program for systemic psychotherapists.
Gives courses and conducts research seminars:
- Research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy
- Supervision in classical and post-classical systemic family psychotherapy
- Theory and methodology of modern psychology
- Introduction to family psychology and family psychotherapy
- Family system research
- Methods and schools of classical systemic family psychotherapy
- Models of supervision in systemic family psychotherapy
Grants:
- 2002–2004 Grant from the Open Society Institute “College of Helping Specialists”, aimed at professional network support for specialists helping organizations in Russian regions. Responsible executor of the project.
- 2005–2008 Grant from the KAF Foundation - Future for the children of Beslan. Direction coordinator.
Main publications: more than 60 works, including 2 monographs
- Systemic family psychotherapy. Course of lectures. St. Petersburg, from “Rech”, 2001
- Introduction to systemic family psychotherapy. M. Kogiito Center, 2011.
Awarded American Association of Family Psychotherapists and the AVANTA Society for the development of V. Satir’s theory in Russia.
