Valery Moiseevich Leibin (born 8 March 1942 in the village of Khmelyovka in Zuevskiy district of Kirov region in Russia) is a Russian psychoanalyst, Ph.D., head of the department of history and theory of psychoanalysis in Institute of Psychoanalysis, Professor of Moscow State Medical Stomatological University, an honorary Doctor of East European Institute of Psychoanalysis, an honorary member of the interregional public organization Russian Psychoanalytical Society, a member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences, a chief scientist of Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the editorial boards of the "Russian Psychoanalytic Bulletin" (since 1991), the philosophic psychoanalytic journal "Archetype" (since 1996), "Psychoanalytic Review" (since 1997) and "Review of Psychoanalysis" (since 2005). According to the rating given by "Psychological newspaper" Valery Leibin is in the top ten most prominent psychoanalysts in Russia.
Education
Valery Leibin graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University (1969) and accomplished a post-graduate course in the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1972). In 1972 he defended his thesis "Philosophy of social criticism in the United States", presented for the degree of PhD, and in 1982 - defended his doctoral thesis on "Psychoanalysis and American neofreydizm (historical-philosophical analysis of Freudianism)".
Fields of scientific activity
Fields of his scientific activities: history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, globalistics, system research. In the 1970s Valery Leibin wrote and published a number of papers on the analysis of the works of A.Adler, H.Marcuse, V.Reich, H.Sullivan, S.Freud, K.Horney, K.Jung. In the 1980s he published in foreign magazines a number of materials on the spreading of ideas of A.Adler in Russia and about the scientific status of psychoanalysis. In 1995-1997 he conducted an empirical study of the attitude of Russian students to psychoanalytic ideas, particularly to the Oedipus complex. He participated in the International Congress of unconscious mental activity (1978, Tbilisi), in the sections of psychopolitics at the XIV World Congress of the International Political Sciences Association (1988, Washington, DC), in the International Symposium "The Soviet culture today: Rebuilding the past or inventing the future?"(1991, USA, Duke University), in the International Conference "100 years of psychoanalysis: Russian roots, repression and the return of Russia into the international psychoanalytic community" (1996, St. Petersburg), in the International Russian-Austrian scientific and practical conference "Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis in the context of the Austrian and Russian cultures" (2000, Moscow), in the Second International Conference "System Analysis and Information Technology" (2007, Obninsk), in the Third International Conference "System Analysis and Information Technology"(2009, Zvenigorod) and in several other Russian conferences on psychoanalysis, globalistics, system research. In 1997-1999 Valery Leibin was a member of the commission of the Russian State Committee for Science and High Technology which developed the Federal target program "Revival and development of philosophica, clinical and applied psychoanalysis"].