KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Pedagogical University continues organizing open discussion lectures by leading specialists in different areas.

Today, the Director of the Medical Clinic for Person-Centered Psychotherapy, Doctor of Psychology, Professor Alexander Kocharyan was at our University.

The Doctor, invited by the initiative of the Chair of Applied Psychology, presented his lecture to the teaching-professorial staff and the students; the topic of the lecture was “Sub-verbal (non-verbal) Model of Person-Centered Therapy”.

Alexander Kocharyan spoke about Rogerian Therapy, which is considered as a field in humanistic psychology, and introduced also his personal drafts of the method in question.

Likewise, he thoroughly explained the methods of making non-verbal psychological analysis and various manifestations of a person’s inner world through the body.

When speaking about psychotherapy, the Professor noted that the founder of that theory, American psychologist Karl Rogers was mentioning not about human being, but about a person, considering as his main aim to identify a human being in a person.

What is more, Alexander Kocharyan also noticed that Rogers had been the first, who denied perceiving psychotherapy as a simple method and observed it as a unique interpersonal area, a kind of sacred communication between persons.

“In psychotherapy relations should be cured through love, by building positive relations”, added the speaker.

Furthermore, the Doctor of Psychology also discussed the main provision of the study, after which, from the perspective of the body language, explained and demonstrated how one’s psychological issues could be reflected on the body by working with a few people.
Afterwards, the Professor showed in practice what kind of psychological results this curing process could have.

The Head of the Chair of Applied Psychology Samvel Khudoyan marked during his interview to the old.aspu.am that the Rogerian Theory had no usage in Armenia, and even though the students had been familiarized with that method during the classes, but they were observing the practical application thereof for the first time; however, this method had a widespread usage all around the World and is exactingly effective. As a matter of fact, the student –centered teaching was formed on the basis of this theory.

Similarly, the Professor Assured that the cooperation would continue in diverse areas starting with scientific research up to creation of Armenian Union of Psychologists in the World.