Therapy in turmoil: Russian psychotherapists navigate war and ethics

IF 1.5 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Arsenii Khitrov
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This ethnographic study explores how Russian psychotherapists are navigating professional ethics and politics after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Analysing a conversation between an instructor and students at a psychotherapy training centre in Russia, the study examines how therapists negotiate neutrality, values and therapeutic approaches in a shifting sociopolitical landscape. The author identifies four approaches to delineating the boundaries between professional practice and political engagement and explores how the boundaries between therapeutic and political realms are constantly negotiated through social interaction. These processes highlight tensions within Russian therapeutic culture and offer insights into professional subjectivity formation amid political turmoil, revealing the complex interplay between individual subjectivity, professional identity and sociopolitical structures in contemporary societies. The research contributes to anthropological understandings of professional communities as mediators between individuals and states. The study also shows how cultural norms adapt to political pressures and illuminates the role of therapeutic practices in shaping societal responses to political events in authoritarian settings.

动荡中的治疗:俄罗斯心理治疗师驾驭战争与伦理
这项人种学研究探讨了 2022 年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后,俄罗斯心理治疗师如何在职业道德和政治中游刃有余。通过分析俄罗斯一家心理治疗培训中心的教师与学生之间的对话,本研究探讨了治疗师如何在不断变化的社会政治环境中协商中立性、价值观和治疗方法。作者指出了划分专业实践与政治参与界限的四种方法,并探讨了治疗领域与政治领域之间的界限是如何通过社会互动不断协商的。这些过程凸显了俄罗斯治疗文化中的紧张关系,为政治动荡中专业主体性的形成提供了见解,揭示了当代社会中个人主体性、专业身份和社会政治结构之间复杂的相互作用。这项研究有助于从人类学角度理解作为个人与国家之间调解人的专业群体。研究还显示了文化规范如何适应政治压力,并揭示了治疗实践在专制环境中塑造社会对政治事件的反应方面所起的作用。
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Anthropology Today
Anthropology Today ANTHROPOLOGY-
CiteScore
2.30
自引率
7.70%
发文量
71
期刊介绍: Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines. Anthropology Today encourages submissions on a wide range of topics, consistent with these aims. Anthropology Today is an international journal both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.
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