ADA (ADEL) TADEVOSYAN
ARMEN MURADYAN
MALE’S HEALTH IN THE OBJECTIVE OF STRESSOLOGY – BEYOND THE USUAL
The Law of Gravity is revealed among people as an attraction of a Man towards a Woman. The attraction often arises suddenly, instantaneously and stays forever, creating a whole new world by combining “mismatches” similar to the puzzles of gravity. Once gravity disappears, the attraction remains in the Universe.
Armen Muradyan, Ada Tadevosyan, 2018
Man is a leader (the Universe), a woman is a follower (Galathea). Man teaches, takes action and creates the order on the earth, It is him who is only responsible for both Good and Evil. However, the Woman is the one who is responsible of what type of a man he will become, a Teacher or a Creator or a Destroyer. They are looking for each other, sometimes their whole life, and when they meet, then the Love, the only passion that does not recognize either past or future, becomes their supreme power.
Armen Muradyan, Ada Tadevosyan, 2018
Arshil Gorki. “Mysterious struggle”, 1937
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Ada (Adel) Tadevosyan was born in Tbilisi, in the family of a serviceman. After graduation from the Yerevan State Medical Institute in 1961, she began her professional career as a psychiatrist in the psychiatric hospital of Ijevan (Armenia). Since 1963 for 30 years she taught at the Department of Psychiatry of the Yerevan State Medical Institute (now M. Heratsi Medical University). In 1969 she successfully defended her PhD thesis, subsequently received the Diploma of Associate Professor.
A. Tadevosyan is the direct organizer and participant of the work on rendering help to victims of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia. Since 1989 for many years she was the organizer and Head of the “Stress” Center. The term “Stressology” belongs to her. A Tadevosyan in the most difficult conditions that prevailed at that time in Armenia, created a new service, thereby ensuring the development of stressology in Armenia and determining the priority of this direction not only in the extreme crisis situation. The most important aspect of A. Tadevosyan’s activity was the aspect of developing and introducing a new field of medicine – stressology to students, clinical residents and doctors. For these purposes she wrote a monograph (as the first text-book) “STRESSOLOGY – as a field of medicine on the problem of mental trauma and post-traumatic health disorders”. In 1996 in St. Petersburg A. Tadevosyan was awarded the M. V. Lomonosov Gold Medal for her contribution to education and solving problems on human security and life. As a participant of the National Program for the Development of Psychosocial Aspect “Disaster Management” of the United Nations in Armenia, in 1998 A. Tadevosyan conducted training cycles with rescuers and was awarded a commemorative medal from Hungarian Ministry of Civil Protection. A Tadevosyan is a participant of the Geneva Initiative on Reforms in Psychiatry in 1991–1992 and attendee of many World Congresses.
A. Tadevosyan is the author of more than 100 printed works and several monographs on the problems of mentally traumatized. She proposed a stress-phase-oriented model (SPHOM) of health disorders.
For contribution to the scientific and practical medicine was awarded the Gold Medal of Mkhitar Heratsi YSMU, 2017.
A. Tadevosyan – ScD in Medicine, Associate Professor, full member of the International Academy of Ecology and Life Safety (MANEB), Academician of the RA Academy of Law, member of the Association of Psychiatrists of Armenia, World Association of Psychiatrists, International Association of Traumatic Stress, World Association of Biological Psychiatry, International Association “Stress and Behavior”, licensed psychiatrist, psychotherapist, organizer of public health.
Armen Muradyan is Rector of the Yerevan State Medical University named after M. Heratsi (YSMU), Head of the Department of Urology and Andrology, ScD in Medicine, Professor, whose works are devoted to oncourology, andrology, reconstructive and non-invasive surgery. He was born in the family of a doctor and musician. Out of two possible professions, by the call of the heart, he chose medicine, which became a native element for him. His professional career began as a medical attendant, having passed all the stages of becoming primarily practicing urologist.
Professional medical growth covers the period from 1998 to 2006. After graduating from the Medical Institute, having received a narrow specialty of urologist, he began to work as urologist-consultant in Uronephrological Clinic. In 2001–2002 worked as an on-call doctor in the Urological Department of the Republican Medical Center “Armenia”; 2002–2003 – Assistant of Surgery Department No.2, YSMU; 2003–2011 – founder and Head of the Department of Urology at the YSMU; Head of the Urological Clinic of the Republican Medical Center “Armenia”; Chief Urologist of the RA Ministry of Health; 2009 – elected President of the Armenian Urological Association. Since 2004, without leaving his main practical work as an urologist, combined it with work in the Ministry of Health, first as an adviser to the Minister of Health, then in 2014–2016 became Minister of Health of the Republic of Armenia. As Minister of Public Health he repeatedly confirmed his devotion to the “White Doctor’s Robe” by his attitude to patients, people who found themselves in difficult situation (war in Karabakh, man-made and technical disasters), disabled people. Throughout all these years he was engaged in scientific activity; in 2005 defended his doctoral dissertation on the theme “Clinical and biological bases of complex treatment of advanced prostate cancer”; Head of 3 candidate and 2 doctoral dissertations, has more than 50 scientific publications, several monographs. Awards: “Gold Medal” of YSMI, Letter of Thanks from RA Prime-Minister, “National Trust” Prize”, “Medal after N. Lopatkin” from the President of the Urological Association, Medal for “Services to the Fatherland” of the 2nd degree from President of RA Serzh Sargsyan.
ABOUT THE PUBLICATION
Head of the Department of Medical Psychology of YSMU, PhD in Psychology им. Гераци, к.п.н.
Khachatur Gasparyan
The monograph “Male’s Health in the Objective of Stressology – beyond the usual” is devoted to the study of male health from the point of view of medicine, psychology and psychiatry. A detailed and in-depth analysis of all those stressogenic impacts, factors and peculiarities of male socialization that affect health and longevity of male life has been done. Male’s health is seen as the result of the effect of multi-aspect factors including somatic problems, stressful life situations and psychological traumas. The authors demonstrate system and interdisciplinary approach to the problem of male health in which the entire structure of the personality and not just of a man as a carrier of a particular disease, is considered which corresponds to the modern approaches in medicine and medical psychology.
For a long time female gender role and the limitations associated with it have been in the focus of researchers’ attention. However, it should be noted that the traditional male role also has a number of stereotypes and limitations that overlap their carriers and men also suffer from gender prejudices and stereotypes. In this regard, the authors consider the historical development of concepts about male sexuality, male gender role and those difficulties that affect the psychological and physical health of men.
The authors pay great attention to phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of the concept of male sexuality. The phenomenon of body, phallic symbolism and phenomenon of libido energy are analyzed at different stages of the historical development of mankind, as well as within the life cycle of each male. The authors analyze the views of different scientists on the problems of consciousness, spirituality, relationship of ideal and material principles and conduct deep psychological and culturological analyses of the development of male identity. As part of the analysis of life stages of the development of libido energy and sublimation of this energy, the psychological aspects of erectile dysfunction along with the enormous influence that the psychological reasons have on the development of this problem are considered. The system approach to this problem of male health opens new opportunities for doctors, psychologists and patients since only with an interdisciplinary approach and taking into account the whole range of psychosomatic relationships it is possible to effectively treat not only the symptoms but also the disease itself.
Considering the above, it should be noted that this monograph is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to the scientific literature in the fields of psychology, medicine and stressology.
INTRODUCTION
The wisdom of my grandfathers
stuck in my head:
we were born to enjoy work, fight, love,
we were born for this and for nothing else.
Isaak Babel
The Armenian painter Aram Vramshapu Vanetsian in early 1939 began writing I. Babel’s portrait which turned out to be the last lifetime portrait of the writer (repressed and shot at the age of 46, January 1940).
Isaak Babel
A serious scientific question can be put to Babel’s words. If he is right, then the male mortality at a relatively young age is the result of the biological characteristics of the male body and its functioning.
Further presentation of the material is a search for the answer.
We searched for the answer proceeding from the following provisions:
1. “Human evolution is an important part of the universal evolution as an open nonlinear system, and the most complex one” (V. E. Klochko, 2017).
2. “A person is such a level of system research, when the not very favorite word “system” can be quite adequately replaced by the more euphonic concept of “integrity” (I. Prigogine, 1986).
3. “A person is an integrative entity” possessing the brain and higher nervous activity (HNA) owing to which an internal notional subjective world is formed, including:
Conscious triunity (biological/psychic/social);
“appropriate” part of information from outside, from the collective unconscious;
the soul of a particular person (“affective/emotional clot”);
will and faith.
4. The psychology of the development of culture and religion led us to the need not to ignore the stages of development of the studied paradigms both in phylo- and ontogenesis.