History of psychotherapy in Russia

Psychotherapy, like any other branch of medicine, has its own history-as a science and practice of medicine.

In the history of psychotherapy can be identified two large (basic) period. The first, pre-scientific, covering millennia, and the second - only two centuries, XIX-XX centuries - scientific period of psychotherapy. The history of Russian psychotherapy is included as an integral part in the development of world psychotherapy. Description of the history of psychotherapy is based on two main criteria - the internal logic of the development of science and the impact of external socio-economic, cultural factors (the so-called historical background) on the development of psychotherapy as an aspect of psychiatry, and in a broad sense, and medicine, psychology, pedagogy, sociology, philosophy.

For the beginning of psychotherapy in Russia, we conditionally take the end of the XIX century., when the term ?psychotherapy? appeared in the world practice of ...