Armen Muradyan, Ada Tadevosyan, 2018
Man is a leader (the Universe), a woman is a follower (Galathea). Man teaches, takes action and creates the order on the earth, It is him who is only responsible for both Good and Evil. However, the Woman is the one who is responsible of what type of a man he will become, a Teacher or a Creator or a Destroyer. They are looking for each other, sometimes their whole life, and when they meet, then the Love, the only passion that does not recognize either past or future, becomes their supreme power.
Armen Muradyan, Ada Tadevosyan, 2018
Arshil Gorki. “Mysterious struggle”, 1937
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Ada (Adel) Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, in the family of a serviceman. After graduation from the Yerevan State Medical Institute in 1961, she began her professional career as a psychiatrist in the psychiatric hospital of Ijevan (Armenia). Since 1963 for 30 years she taught at the Department of Psychiatry of the Yerevan State Medical Institute (now M. Heratsi Medical University). In 1969 she successfully defended her PhD thesis, subsequently received the Diploma of Associate Professor.
A. Tadevosyan is the direct organizer and participant of the work on rendering help to victims of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia. Since 1989 for many years she was the organizer and Head of the “Stress” Center. The term “Stressology” belongs to her. A Tadevosyan in the most difficult conditions that prevailed at that time in Armenia, created a new service, thereby ensuring the development of stressology in Armenia and determining the priority of this direction not only in the extreme crisis situation. The most important aspect of A. Tadevosyan’s activity was the aspect of developing and introducing a new field of medicine – stressology to students, clinical residents and doctors. For these purposes she wrote a monograph (as the first text-book) “STRESSOLOGY – as a field of medicine on the problem of mental trauma and post-traumatic health disorders”. In 1996 in St. Petersburg A. Tadevosyan was awarded the M. V. Lomonosov Gold Medal for her contribution to education and solving problems on human security and life. As a participant of the National Program for the Development of Psychosocial Aspect “Disaster Management” of the United Nations in Armenia, in 1998 A. Tadevosyan conducted training cycles with rescuers and was awarded a commemorative medal from Hungarian Ministry of Civil Protection. A Tadevosyan is a participant of the Geneva Initiative on Reforms in Psychiatry in 1991–1992 and attendee of many World Congresses.
A. Tadevosyan is the author of more than 100 printed works and several monographs on the problems of mentally traumatized. She proposed a stress-phase-oriented model (SPHOM) of health disorders.
For contribution to the scientific and practical medicine was awarded the Gold Medal of Mkhitar Heratsi YSMU, 2017.
A. Tadevosyan – ScD in Medicine, Associate Professor, full member of the International Academy of Ecology and Life Safety (MANEB), Academician of the RA Academy of Law, member of the Association of Psychiatrists of Armenia, World Association of Psychiatrists, International Association of Traumatic Stress, World Association of Biological Psychiatry, International Association “Stress and Behavior”, licensed psychiatrist, psychotherapist, organizer of public health.
Armen Muradyan is Rector of the Yerevan State Medical University named after M. Heratsi (YSMU), Head of the Department of Urology and Andrology, ScD in Medicine, Professor, whose works are devoted to oncourology, andrology, reconstructive and non-invasive surgery. He was born in the family of a doctor and musician. Out of two possible professions, by the call of the heart, he chose medicine, which became a native element for him. His professional career began as a medical attendant, having passed all the stages of becoming primarily practicing urologist.
Professional medical growth covers the period from 1998 to 2006. After graduating from the Medical Institute, having received a narrow specialty of urologist, he began to work as urologist-consultant in Uronephrological Clinic. In 2001–2002 worked as an on-call doctor in the Urological Department of the Republican Medical Center “Armenia”; 2002–2003 – Assistant of Surgery Department No.2, YSMU; 2003–2011 – founder and Head of the Department of Urology at the YSMU; Head of the Urological Clinic of the Republican Medical Center “Armenia”; Chief Urologist of the RA Ministry of Health; 2009 – elected President of the Armenian Urological Association. Since 2004, without leaving his main practical work as an urologist, combined it with work in the Ministry of Health, first as an adviser to the Minister of Health, then in 2014–2016 became Minister of Health of the Republic of Armenia. As Minister of Public Health he repeatedly confirmed his devotion to the “White Doctor’s Robe” by his attitude to patients, people who found themselves in difficult situation (war in Karabakh, man-made and technical disasters), disabled people. Throughout all these years he was engaged in scientific activity; in 2005 defended his doctoral dissertation on the theme “Clinical and biological bases of complex treatment of advanced prostate cancer”; Head of 3 candidate and 2 doctoral dissertations, has more than 50 scientific publications, several monographs. Awards: “Gold Medal” of YSMI, Letter of Thanks from RA Prime-Minister, “National Trust” Prize”, “Medal after N. Lopatkin” from the President of the Urological Association, Medal for “Services to the Fatherland” of the 2nd degree from President of RA Serzh Sargsyan.
ABOUT THE PUBLICATION
Rector of the East European Institute of Psychoanalysis, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Psychology and Candidate of Medical Sciences, Honorary Professor at the Vienna University named after Sigmund Freud
Mikhail Reshetnikov
Life expectance of the male population, although traditionally lagging behind the female population for 4–6 years, is steadily increasing in all developed countries, reaching in some cases, as in Japan, 85 years. Therefore, the problem of male general, mental and sexual longevity acquires special significance, which has been repeatedly emphasized in international forums held under the aegis of WHO. Due to this, the monograph prepared by A. Tadevosyan and A. Muradyan is, undoubtedly, an actual and timely study and generalization of the authors’ many years of scientific and therapeutic activity. Especially I would like to note the interdisciplinary approach, originally laid in the basis of this publication, as one of the authors is a recognized specialist in psychiatry, and the second – in urology, sexopathology and normal sexology.
Unlike the generally accepted approaches that primarily appeal to the biological patterns of the functioning of the organism and the individual, the main accent of the presentation is deliberately shifted by the authors to the sphere of psychosocial problems of health and longevity. For a long time, medicine and psychology were strongly drawn towards describing some kind of average and even asexual personality. At the beginning of the 20th century, this tradition was violated by psychoanalysts Helen Deutsch and Karen Horney, who first prepared works devoted to the specifics of female psychology. On the Soviet space this topic was highlighted in the monograph of Abram Svyadoshch “Women’s Sexual Pathology”, which became a medical bestseller and survived several reprints. However, so far there are not so many systematic works in which an attempt is made to penetrate deeply into the inner mental world of men. It is this penetration that characterizes the peer-reviewed monograph analyzing the links between the neurophysiological and psychosocial mechanisms of male sexual activity, both in norm and in pathology.
I am pleased to note that, unlike most authors who traditionally (mainly because of their ignorance) do not appeal to the brilliant discoveries of Sigmund Freud, the authors actively use the psychoanalytic concept, while not only referring to the works of this outstanding scientist, but also actively disputing with him. On the whole, the book is distinguished by the substantiation and novelty of the view on a number of key problems of psychic and somatic pathology, imbued with the spirit