Saving Anna Karenina: Heroes of Russian Classics at a Psychologist's Appointment

The range of questions discussed in this book is very broad. The author talks about characters and human communication; the search for the meaning of life and the ethics of helping professionals; couple psychotherapy; how psychology relates to the social context of a person's life, and much more. All this is discussed using examples from characters in literary works and their authors. The reader will learn what diagnoses could be given to Oblomov or Plyushkin in our time, why the situation of mismatches that befell Onegin and Tatyana occurs not only in the poem but also in many real couples, how Anna Karenina could have been helped, and why the charming characters of the novel “Fathers and Sons” provide an opportunity to discuss age crises and the problems of searching for the meaning of life.