Ruined Lives: Repressions in the Soviet Union

Psychoanalytic theories of trauma

  • Tatjana Nikolaevna Pushkaryova
Keywords: totalitarian regime, transgenerational trauma, culture, skin, container, feminine

Abstract

Between 1917 and 1953 the population in Soviet Union suffered enormous traumas. Their transgenerational transmission is considered by the Author in her own life experience, in her patients and in the whole society. In a totalitarian regime underground culture or that of former times played an important role as witness of truth and human dimension and, working as a container – a second skin – which supported mental survival. Why is it later so difficult to face such traumas and disclose the legacy of terror?

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Author Biography

Tatjana Nikolaevna Pushkaryova

Pushkaryova Tatjana Nikolaevna, graduated in Medicine in Stavropol and worked as Psychiatrist. In 1986 moved to Kiev where, as Doctor of Medical Sciences, became Scientific Chief of the Centre of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the Institute of Pediatrics of the Ukrainian National Academy of Medical Sciences. Most of her analytic training took place in Switzerland and in 2007 she became one of the first two Members of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Ukraine, and few years later was one of the founding members of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society, IPA Study Group. She translated several analytic books and papers from English to Russian. She was Teacher and Supervisor of Infant Observation Programs according to the Tavistock Clinical Model and introduced the Parent- Infant Psychotherapy following the A. Freud Centre method.

Published
2022-01-14
How to Cite
PushkaryovaT. N. (2022). Ruined Lives: Repressions in the Soviet Union. Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 2(4), 96-113. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/13726
Issue
Vol 2 No 4 (2021): Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
Section
CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS