63rd Annual Conference

Thursday, February 23

Afternoon (Continuous One-Hour Open Sessions)

3:45-4:45 P.M.

Session 210

The Group Psychotherapy in Georgia: Past, Present and Future

Presenter:         

Revaz Korinteli M.D. Professor Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist

Chief, Republican Psychotherapeutic  center  at M. Asatiani  Research

Institute of Psychiatry, Mental Health Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia

The article reviews the peculiarity of development of group psychotherapy in Georgia. The author describes social, political and economic conditions influencing group psychotherapy in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia. He looks at specific Soviet and Post-Soviet mentalities and defined certain characteristics of these mentalities. He describes his perspective about  group psychotherapy in Georgia.

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify specific peculiarities of group psychotherapy in Georgia.

2. Define the terms Soviet and Post Soviet mentalities.

3. Compare described peculiarities of group psychotherapy in Georgia with its own and make cross-cultural perspective.

4. Review the unity within diversity and thus bridging differences: healing a house divided.

Course References:

1. Libich S. (1974). Collective Psychotherapy of Neurosis, In Russian Medicine, 222.

2. Miller, M. (1998). Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in imperial Russia and Soviet Union. Yale University Press. 326.

3. Kabanoff M. (1978). The Rehabilitation of Psychotic Patients. Russian Medicine, 232.

4. Karvasarsky B. (1975). Group Psychotherapy. In Group Psychotherapy of Neuroses and Psychosis. Leningrade. 19-26.