Mark E. Burno

Native Psychotherapy in Russia   71

Summary: The peculiarities of Russian psychotherapy, first of all, are connected in their origin with native national-psychological features of the Russians and especially Russian intelligentsia. These national-psychological peculiarities can be seen at different times in Russian science and Russian art. These are anxiety dreaming, impracticability and, at the same time, inclination to complicated realistic, materialistic analysis with deep sympathy for the suffering "little man". It is just this together with social conditions and changes that brought about the appearance of the Russian psychotherapeutic approaches. First of all it is the traditional, native Russian Clinical Psychotherapy. These are Russian Existential Psychotherapy and Russian Clinical Psychoanalysis.