Alexander Didenko
Russian psychiatrist and psychotherapist, currently works as a leading researcher at the Mental Health Research Institute of the Tomsk National Research Medical Center, professor of the Department of Psychiatry, Addictology and Psychotherapy of the Siberian State Medical University; leading consultant of the Tomsk Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital. Alexander has received a medical education in Tomsk, where he specialized in psychiatry and psychotherapy and defended his doctoral dissertation “Personality disorders in convicts in correctional institutions (sociocultural and adaptation aspects)” in 2012.
Area of scientific interests: personality psychology, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, adaptation disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, comorbidity problems in psychiatry, therapy of mental and behavioral disorders, penitentiary psychiatry, paraphilic disorders and problems of sociocultural adaptation of representatives of certain ethnic and social groups in conditions of forced isolation. The author of more than 150 scientific and educational works on psychiatry and clinical psychology.
Member of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists, member of the International Association of Ethnopsychologists and Ethnopsychotherapists (office in Tomsk, Russia), and since 2014 has been a member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law. Alexander Didenko trains groups of foreign specialists, deals with issues of social maladjustment and social phobias, and maintains an agreement with Kazakhstan on transcultural research. Professor Didenko is a disciple of Academician of RAMS Valentin Semke and Academician of RAS Nikolay Bokhan and professor Irina Kupriyanova (member of Board of Directors of WACP) will follow the direction of our association's activities which remains the same – study of mental health problems of the small peoples of Siberia (clinical-dynamic, socio-psychological, biological aspects) and research of the features of borderline, affective, endogenous and addictive disorders.