Fedor Efimovich Vasilyuk is a Russian psychotherapist. Dean of the Faculty of Psychological Counseling at the Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University. Head of the Department of Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Doctor of Psychology, Professor of the Department of Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychological Counseling, MSUPE.
Studied at Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov, Faculty of Psychology, where he completed his postgraduate studies under the guidance of A. N. Leontiev, then V. P. Zinchenko. From 1981 to 1987 he worked as a clinical psychologist in a psychiatric hospital (Strogonovka village in the Crimea). He defended his PhD thesis. In 1984 he published The Psychology of Experience, which was republished in English in 1991 by Simon & Schuster. In 1986-1988 he participated in the creation of one of the country’s first specialized socio-psychological centers, and since 1988 — in the creation of the Institute of Man of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he organized the Center for Psychology and Psychotherapy. In 1991 he created the Moscow Psychotherapeutic Journal, in 1992 he became the editor-in-chief of this journal. Since 1993, he has been an employee of the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education, since 1994 — head of the laboratory of the scientific foundations of psychotherapy and psychological counseling. In 1997, he founded and headed the first in Russia Faculty of Psychological Counseling at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, which he heads to this day. In 2007 he defended his doctoral dissertation.
F.E. Vasilyuk is known for his research in methodology of psychology, psychology of consciousness, psychotherapy and Christian psychology. Engaged in individual and group psychotherapy. Based on the theory of experience, he developed the author’s system of «Understanding Psychotherapy». This approach is distinguished by the most detailed development of psychotherapeutic techniques, which are mastered by students in the form of psychotherapeutic workshops.
Author’s developments
- Typology of Lifeworlds
- Crisis problem
- Typology of critical situations
List of publications
- “Psychology of experience. Analysis of overcoming critical situations»
- «Lifeworld and Crisis: A Typological Analysis of Critical Situations»
- «From psychological practice to psychotechnical theory»
- «Methodological analysis in psychology»
- «Semiotics and the Technique of Empathy»
- «Methodological meaning of psychological schism»
- «Understanding psychotherapy as a psychotechnical system (dissertation abstract)»
- «Experiencing and Prayer (Experience of General Psychological Research)»
- «Methodology of psychotherapeutic pain relief»
- «Prayer and experience in the context of counseling»
- «Semiotics and the Technique of Empathy»