Why are ADHD, ASD, anxiety, and depression diagnoses rising? Psychotherapist Olga Movchan explores how migration, social media, global crises, and psychiatry’s destigmatization affect mental health — and where the line is between norm and pathology.
Psychotherapist Olga Movchan on how war, ideologies, and digital life challenge our sense of belonging—why this leads to loneliness and how Bauman’s “liquid society” helps us rethink connection and identity today.
How does a traumatic experience affect subsequent generations on both the individual and collective levels? Psychotherapist Olga Movchan on the phenomenon of “transgenerational transmission.”
Interview with Olga Movchan on how clients' requests to psychotherapists have changed over the past 100 years
From 2016 to 2019, I interviewed one hundred people from different professions living in Moscow
In 1998, I was in New York for the first time and went to Brooklyn to see Brighton Beach
On the emigrant crisis and overcoming it in an interview with Kommersant UK
The nature of nostalgia, how to handle it so as not to harm yourself and others
In terms of psychopathology, the movement from neurotic experience to borderline experience is a movement toward a more severe state. The next state in terms of severity is psychosis
Time is like air. We may not notice it, but as long as we are alive, we cannot escape our relationship with time
The art of the therapist is largely about turning potential hubris (revealing, exposing the intimate, the hidden and the shameful) into healing power
The reflections I want to share in this text were born while working on an article I was asked to write for a collection on Beauty and Ugliness
If they tell you that tramal drugs do not have a quick addictive effect, don't believe them. They do, and they do it very well
Fyodor Efimovich Vasilyuk wrote that psychotherapy is an art, the art of transitions between chronotopes. According to Vasilyuk, it is this feature of psychotherapy that makes it similar to art, and time in psychotherapy - to artistic time
About how our relationship has changed in the new reality
Lack of support in the period of growing up and the ability to manage their emotions often develops in people a tendency to black-and-white assessment of reality and the willingness to drastically change assessments, writing others as enemies or friends
On recovering from the pandemic
Amazing, warm and insightful, psychotherapist, coach, supervisor, teacher, author of a number of articles and books
We met with psychologist, family psychotherapist, narrative practitioner Vyacheslav Moskvichev on his birthday
Many many years ago in New York, I accidentally met Fr. Yakov, a priest of a foreign Russian church
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Why is it increasingly difficult for a modern person to feel belonging? Psychotherapist Olga Movchan talks about how identity crisis, online communication, wars and ideological differences affect feelings of loneliness.
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What is neurosis, and who are neurotics?