Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Wartime: Ukraine

Prologue: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Wartime: Ukraine — The Impossibilities and Possibilities of Psychoanalysis in Ukraine Facing War
Mariana Velykodna PhD & Oksana Yakushko PhD, ABPP

Section I. Psychic Responses to War Trauma

War and Attacks on Thinking: Reflections on the Psychoanalysts’ Responses to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Mariana Velykodna Ph.D.

The Self-Systems in the Military During Direct Russian Hostilities in Ukraine
Mykhaylo Pustovoyt Dr. Habil., M.D.

Psychodynamic Observations from Psychological Work on Liberated Ukraine’s Territories Previously Occupied by Russian Troops
Valeriy Dorozhkin D. Habil.

Section II. Notes on Psychoanalytic Practice in Wartime

A Letter from the Front: A Message from a Psychoanalyst Defending Ukraine from the Russian Invasion
Petro Garmish M.D.

When the Setting Is Bursting at the Seams: The Survival of a Psychoanalytic Dyad During War
Vladimir Lagutin M.D., Ph.D.

Transformation of Psychoanalytic Techniques in the Crisis Help Situation Amidst the War in Ukraine
Oleksandr Fedorets M.D.

Section III. Russian Invasion of Ukraine in the World’s Interpretations

The War in Ukraine? “We Are to Blame!”
Sergio Benvenuto

Russophilia and Justifications of Russian Imperialism: Reflections on Dostoyevsky in Psychoanalysis as the Mirror of Rationalizing Russian Colonial Violence
Oksana Yakushko Ph.D., ABPP

Epilogue
Epilogue: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Wartime: Ukraine — (Not) Bearing the War: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Oksana Yakushko Ph.D., ABPP & Mariana Velykodna Ph.D.