Existential psychotherapist from St. Petersburg interested in human being from the perspectives of humanitarian and social sciences as well as literature and philosophy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The best platform to meet new interesting people, trying to understand their culture and showing them your own. It`s especially important in the current political situation in Russia.

Interests

• poetry
• philosophy
• psychology
• learning languages
• psychotherapy
• existentialism
• existenzanalyse

Music, Movies, and Books

Traditional in music: classics, especially Bach, Shostakovich. I`m a great fan of cello solo.
In literature everything that explores the inner world: Dostoevsky, Proust, Hesse, Pessoa, Rilke.
In poetry: Mandelstam, Khlebnikov, Lorca, Verlaine, Pessoa, Rilke

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wrote a book of poems though still unpublished

What I Can Share with Hosts

Surely I may talk about their psyche, you cannot avoid it when people know you are therapist.
Talk about the difference of cultures and languages I speak (especially my native Russian, and quite fluent French and German)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States