Dr Lizaveta van Munsteren
Author, Lecturer, Chartered Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Alongside being a compassionate and well-qualified Lecturer, Psychologist and Psychotherapist, Dr Lizaveta is also the author of ‘The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980 – The History of Psychoanalysis Series’.
A brief look into the book:
This book considers the changing fortunes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia from 1930 to 1980.
Approaching social history in a psychoanalytic key, Lizaveta van Munsteren argues that the growing split between official and informal languages of the time produced multiple strategies to keep alive the conversation around prohibited subjects. Through original archival research on figures such as Bluma Zeigarnik, Alexander Luria, Filipp Bassin and Dmitry Uznadze, van Munsteren offers a more nuanced understanding of Soviet studies of the unconscious and the role of language in the formation of the mind and in mental disturbances. This book makes a significant contribution to the historiography of psychoanalysis and to the study of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis and its interdisciplinary engagements.
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‘Lizaveta van Munsteren’s new study provides important new insights. This thoughtful, well researched book will interest anyone concerned with the history of ‘the talking cure’, and the politics of the human sciences in the Soviet empire.’Daniel Pick, professor emeritus, Birkbeck, University of London; training analyst, the British Psychoanalytical Society’This comprehensive and thorough study by Lizaveta van Munsteren illustrates how Freudian ideas were denied and removed in the Soviet Union. The book then effectively describes the ‘return of the repressed’. Psychoanalysis re-emerged in the work of great and unforgettable figures in the history of Soviet psychology.’
