About Psychology and Psychotherapy of the Times of Globalization

Alexander I. Yuriev 
(Laboratory of Political Consulting, Faculty of Political Science, St.-Petersburg State University, Russia)

Abstract: Today’s crisis of psychology and psychotherapy appears to be the most powerful in the short history, maybe, the last one. The reason of such heavy presentiments is hidden in radical change of human life under the influence of globalization. Globalization modifies mentality of a person. Without understanding what is Globalization, the Global Person, Global Interdependence, there is impossible to discuss problems of psychology and psychotherapy.
Principles and rules of the Ethical Code of psychologists form a border between the cruel and rational world of globalization and their clients being under globalization pressure. The client hopes for the help and protection of a psychologist or psychotherapist who should help him to find the place in the global world. If the psychologist and the psychotherapist follow the Ethical Code — they are on the side of the client, and if they don’t — they’re on the side of globalization. The Ethical Code is a handbook for psychologists and psychotherapists on self-control, self-regulation, self-management, self-education of their practice.

Key words: psychotherapy, globalization, the global person, the ethical code, psychologist’s practice