title: On the psycho-social conditions of psychotherapy in post-Soviet Georgia.
abstract: The article describes the social, economic and political conditions that influence the practice of psychotherapy in post-Soviet Georgia. The author looks at the specific Soviet and post-Soviet mentalities and defines certain characteristics of these mentalities, the master-slave relationship between the people and the State, the materialistic world view, the nostalgia for the past and idealization of Soviet times, the identity crisis produced by the socio-economic traumas. The paper then provides clinical illustrations of these phenomena and shows how they can interfere with the process of psychotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Korintelirezo@usa.net
authors.forename: Rezo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Korinteli
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005846:Georgia (Republic); D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012426:Russia; D013997:Time Factors