Natalia Pavlikova with Ed Tick - Exploring the Russian Psyche Light and Shadow

How does an understanding of the Russian collective psychological field guide us in grasping the depths and complexities manifesting in the politics of the country, region, and world today? What is the cultural complex of Russian citizens: its peculiarities, its historical roots, the way it was recreated during the existence of the USSR, and reformulated after its collapse? We will consider the influence of the country’s territorial and geographical location on the formation of its cultural complex and describe the archetypal features incarnating the Great Mother and Great Father archetypes and their shadows. What is the psychic tension between this collective complex and the individual? This presentation will address these questions and themes, and will fit the national complex of Russia into the global dynamics of cultural complexes now present in the world. Natalia Pavlikova is a Jungian Analyst in Moscow. She is a clinical psychologist, graduate of the Psychology Department of Moscow State University. Following graduation, she worked at the Scientific Center for Mental Health and at the Clinic for Medical Nutrition as a medical psychologist. She received additional training in Psychodrama and Eriksonian hypnosis and in 2010 was certified as a Jungian Analyst. Natalia works with adults and has been in private practice for more than 20 years. For the Russian Society of Analytical Psychology, Natalia served as Vice President (2012 – 2015) and President until 2023 and now serves on their Training Committee. Throughout her official work, Natalia has developed connections between international colleagues and professional societies of different countries. She lectures on Jungian typology and psychosomatics at the Moscow Association of Analytical Psychology. In 2022 she assembled a group of psychologists to work with combatants, their families, and civilians who found themselves in the territory of military action traumatized by war.