Ravil’ Nazyrov is a disciple and follower of the founder of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) School of Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology, Honored Scientist of Russia, Professor B.D. Karvasarsky. He serves as the academic advisor for 5 defended and approved dissertations by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation.
He is the author of scientific concepts such as "Clinical Psychotherapy," "Outpatient Psychotherapy," co-author of the contemporary clinical-linguistic approach in psychotherapy, the system of psychotherapeutic rehabilitation based on rehabilitation types of patients, differentiated models of rehabilitation psychotherapeutic environment for patients with dependencies. He is actively involved in developing the scientific concept of "Clinical Psychotherapy" and modern models of psychotherapeutic education based on professional and personal competencies.
He is a recognized expert in the development of psychotherapy, medical (clinical) psychology, and the organization of psychotherapeutic assistance. For 19 years, he served as the Deputy Head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Head of the Department of New Technologies and Outpatient Psychotherapy, and also the Head of the Training Center at the V.M. Bekhterev Institute. He is an ex-president of the Russian Psychotherapeutic Association.
Currently, Ravil’ Nazyrov serves as the Rector of the B.D. Karvasarsky Institute of Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology, which is a scientific, practical, and educational institution of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) School of Psychotherapy. He is also the President of the Association for the Development of Clinical Psychotherapy.
He has authored over 70 scientific works on psychotherapy and is one of the authors of the "Psychotherapeutic Encyclopedia" (St. Petersburg, Peter, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2010), the textbook "Psychotherapy" for medical universities (St. Petersburg, Peter, 1999, 2003, 2007), the textbook "Medical Psychology" for medical and psychological universities (St. Petersburg, Peter, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011), "Clinical Psychotherapy for General Practice Physicians" (St. Petersburg, Peter, 2008), and the guides for physicians-psychotherapists and clinical psychologists "Clinical Psychotherapy in Narcology" (St. Petersburg, Skifiya-PRINT, 2012, 2020).
His areas of expertise include psychotherapy for neuroses, borderline and mental disorders, personality disorders, addiction rehabilitation, family crises, and existential issues. He utilizes various methods in his work, such as individual personality-oriented (reconstructive) psychotherapy (a short-term domestic version of psychodynamic psychotherapy), systemic family-marital psychotherapy, and different group psychotherapy methods, including his own modifications – personality-oriented (reconstructive) group psychotherapy and existential group psychotherapy.
Throughout his career, he worked as a district psychiatrist, narcologist, and psychotherapist in a rural district (1986-1987, Yarkovsky district, Tyumen region). He was the creator and deputy director of the country's first regional psychotherapeutic center (1988-1994, Tyumen City Center for Psychotherapy, Medical, and Social Psychology).
In 1994, he defended his candidate's dissertation in the specialties of "psychiatry" and "medical psychology." The dissertation's topic was "Intra- and Interpsychic Conflicts, Coping Mechanisms, Attitude Towards Illness and Treatment in Patients with Neuroses."
In May 2012, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Scientific Analysis of Psychotherapy in Russia and Theoretical-Methodological Substantiation of Its Further Development" in the specialties of "medical psychology" and "psychiatry." The dissertation was approved by the Higher Attestation Commission in January 2013.
