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by Mariana Velykodna (Editor), Oksana Yakushko (Editor), Adrienne Harris (Editor)
This book looks at the impact of multigenerational trauma, severe psychopathology, and ethical struggles through the lens of Ukrainian psychoanalysts working amidst the Russian invasion.
The contribution examines psychoanalytic responses to Russia's aggression against Ukraine, including via lived experiences of Ukrainian psychoanalysts who practice under conditions of continued threat. The book offers analytic observations and exploration of psychoanalytically informed care with Ukrainians who are experiencing profound distress and war trauma. Contributors describe their work with diverse Ukrainian groups, including children and adolescents, war refugees, individuals experiencing severe physical and psychological crises, Ukrainian Jewish community, and Ukrainian diaspora.
This will be a valuable resource for readers interested in understanding and responding to impact of wars, specifically genocidal wars. They are invited to witness the profound challenges, creativity, courage, human and professional dilemmas, and pain that are witnessed and responded to by psychoanalytically informed practitioners.
Author Biography
Mariana Velykodna is a EuroPsy-registered psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist certified by the European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, an associate professor and Head of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Department at Ukraine Sigmund Freud University in Ukraine.
Oksana Yakushko is a licensed psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Ukrainian immigrant. She is a faculty at the George Washington University and a psychoanalytic practitioner in California and Washington, DC.
Adrienne Harris is a faculty and supervisor in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Faculty and Training analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and serves on Editorial Boards of several psychoanalytic journals.
