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MAIN > ACADEMICS > UNDERGRADUATE > PSYCHOLOGY > FACULTY > ELENA MOLCHANOVA |
ACTING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR |
Associate Professor of Psychology Department, AUCA Counseling Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, RCMH
Academic background:
Professional Memberships:
Kyrgyz Association of Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists & Psychiatrists
Russian Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology Association.
Central Eurasian Studies Society
American Psychological Association
World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH)
Research interests:
On-going research projects:
2010 – present: Policies in mental health services, epidemiology of stress disorders and process of interethnic communication in Southern region of KyrgyzRepublic.
2007 – present: Cognitive models of a “norm” and a “disorder” in Kyrgyz traditional culture, influence on treatment and prognosis of mental disorders
2006 – present: Fractal geometry and dynamic chaos theory in psychiatry and clinical psychology
2006 – present: Psychological anthropology and possibility of traditional Kyrgyz rituals using in modern psychotherapeutic practice
2001 - present: Cognitive models of adaptive phenomena in healthy people and people with mental disorders.
Completed research projects:
1997-2001: Psychotherapeutic use of adaptive phenomena in mental disorders.
1995-1998: Alexithymia as a psychological phenomenon: cross-cultural study.
Selected recent publications:
1. Molchanova, E (2011). South – Kyrgyz Crisis: Narcissism of Small Differences and Defence Mechanism of Social Systems. Istoricheskaya Psychologiya I Sociologiya Istorii, 2/2011, pp 34-45,Moscow, “Uchitel”.
2. Мolchanova, E. (2010) Traditional Healing and Official Psychotherapy in Kyrgyz Republic: possibilities of communications. Academic Review of Medical Anthropology Institute, RAN (chief editor – V. Kharitonova),Moscow,RussianAcademy ofSciences, pp. 145-157
3. Molchanova, E. (2010). Altered states of conciseness and visual – verbal synesthesia in Manas tellers. . Academic Review of Medical Anthropology Institute, RAN (chief editor – V. Kharitonova),Moscow,RussianAcademy ofSciences, pp 130-136
4. Molchanova , E., Koga, PM. (2008). Fractals in Psychiatry: The Disturbance of a “Gold Section” Between Opposite Pairs of Ego-Defense Mechanisms in Schizophrenia – the Monograph of the XIVth World Congress of Psychiatry,Prague, September 20-25, 2008
5. Koga, P.M., Molchanova, E. (2008). A 3-D Fractal Model for DSM-IV in Virtual Reality -the Monograph of the XIVth World Congress of Psychiatry,Prague, September 20-25, 2008.
6. Molchanova E. (2008). Tradition Kyrgyz rituals and modern psychotherapy. - the 5th World Congress of Psychotherapy.Beijing, P.R. China.
7. Molchanova, E.,DobryakovI.(2008). Ideological Crisis in Psychiatry: Psychopathology as Adaptation and as Evolutionary Regress. Historical Psychology and Sociology. Academic journal of RAS ( Russian Academy of Sciences). Vol.1 (1), pp. 158 –169,Moscow, “Uchitel”.
Academic courses taught:
On-ground Teaching General Psychology - 1-level professional course Cognitive Psychology - 3-level professional course Psychological Testing - 3-level professional course Abnormal Psychology - 3-level professional course Introduction to Psychological Counselling - 3-level professional course
On-line Teaching (www.e-course.auca.kg) Culture, Psychology and Society ( for AUCA and Afghan students from American University in Afghanistan)
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American University of Central Asia |
Tel.: (+ 996 312) 66 11 15 |
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Elena S. Molchanova, MD, Psychiatry 
