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Dr Dmitry Avdeev, M.D., Ph.D

Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, medical psychologist, director of the Institute of problems of forming a Christian attitude towards mental disorders.

Personal information

• Was born 20.10.1964 in Russia
• Lives and works in Moscow

Clinical work

2003—2004
participated in organization of the Rehabilitation Centre of Russian Parish named in honour of Saintly Stillian in Cyprus.

since 1995
Doctor-psychotherapist in Moscow state hospital #32 and in the Soul-guardianship Centre in the Name of Saintly Righteous Ioann Kronshtadtsky.

1992—1995
Director of the psychotherapeutic office in the department of rehabilitation in the cardiological clinic in Cheboksary, Russia.

Scientific work

1992—1995
a) the associate professor at the Chuvash Institute of Education;
b) the vice-president of the Russian Association of Positive Psychotherapy;
c) the deputy chief editor of the journal "Positum";
d) the freelance consultant of the medical centre attached to the President of Russia.

1992
Defended the doctoral thesis in the Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry named after V. P. Serbsky.

Public activity

• Since 1991 has been working in the direction of forming a Christian attitude towards mental disorders and creating a model of orthodox psychotherapy
• received 20000 patients with various mental pathology
• Had frequent meetings and talks with parishioners and clergy of Russian Orthodox Church
• Became one of the authors of the Russian Orthodox Medical Project
• Took part in working out at the programme of rehabilitation of drug addicts
• The author and the presenter of the series of broadcasts on such radio stations as "Radonezg", "Blago", "Blagoveshenie", "Golos russkogo prihoda" (Cyprus) generally named "In aid of suffering soul"
• The member of Russian and international professional societies and associations
• Participates in Russian, European and World conferences devoted to the problems of psychiatry and psychotherapy
• The author of numerous books and publications in the Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Georgian, English, Spanish, German languages with the general edition of one million copies
• Head of the Institute of problems of forming a Christian attitude towards mental disorders.