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Chicago | Diplomate in Adlerian Psychology |
Director, Center for Adlerian Practice and Scholarship

Marina Bluvshtein, Ph.D.

Overview

Overview

I consider myself an Adlerian historian, a theoretician, and a practitioner in a broadest sense of Adlerian practice. I am also and hopefully will always be an Adlerian student, and I am fortunate to have many great Adlerian mentors. In maintaining these roles, I see myself a connector – tying together the past and the future through research, matchmaking people for collaborative projects, engaging students and colleagues in everything that I am doing in our communities. In teaching, research, and community building, I follow a Rule of the Three Rs – adhering to Reason, Rigor, and Relationships. I see these principles being especially useful at the great contemporary social junction where Adler’s Individual Psychology responds to a call for community actions and for personal responsibility for the fate of humankind.

My special interests and expertise are in Early Recollections, dreams, therapeutic metaphors, cross-lingualism, and optimal neurocognitive processes. I am a Diplomate in Adlerian Psychology, a faculty member at the International Committee of Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes (ICASSI), a NASAP Certified Adlerian Psychotherapist, and a President of the International Association of Individual Psychology (IAIP). I am also a licensed clinician – a licensed psychologist (MN) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MN) providing clinical services and supervision. I love teaching and am fortunate to teach nationally and internationally (in Canada, Jamaica, Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Austria, Germany, India, Israel, the Netherlands, and other countries).

Please email or call me 312.662.4317 if you have questions or would like more information about me.

Education

Education

  • Ph.D., Clinical Psychology  (emphasis in geriatrics), Harold Abel School of Psychology, Capella University
  • M.A., Adlerian Counseling an Psychotherapy, Alfred Adler Graduate School, MN
  • B.A., Journalism, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Licensure & Certifications

Licensure & Certifications

  • Licensed Psychologist (LP) (MN)
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) (MN)
  • Certified Adlerian psychotherapist (NASAP)
Professional Memberships

Professional Memberships

  • American Psychological Association (APA) (2001-present)
  • American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), clinical member (1999 – present)
  • North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP) 1996 – Present, including COR member (2012-present); Member of the Finance Committee (2014 – 2018); Member of an annual conference host group (2010, 2016); Member of the Task Force on Adlerian Research (2016 – 2019); NASAP Board member (2018-2019); member of the educational committee (2020 – present); Journal of Individual Psychology – contributing editor (2015- 2019); associate editor (2019 – present).
  • International Committee of Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes (ICASSI), Faculty, 2017 – present
  • International Association of Individual Psychology (IAIP) – Vice President (2018-2021), President (2021-Present)
Select Publications

Select Publications

  • Bluvshtein, M. (First published July 27, 2022). Where is the unicorn? Losing private hope in the dream of collective “plenty”. Response to David Riesman’s “The search for challenge,” 62 years later”. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (2022). Rudolf Dreikurs: Quasquicentennial. Journal of Individual Psychology, 78(3), 285-286.
  • Bluvshtein, M. & Hilliard, C.J. (2022). “Dear Friends”: A thematic overview of Rudolf Dreikurs’s circular letters written in 1954-1971. Journal of Individual Psychology, 78(3), 295-312.
  • Hoffman, E. & Bluvshtein, M. (2022). Promoting Individual Psychology in the American classroom: The first attempt and its contemporary implications. Journal of Individual Psychology, 78(2), 175-188.
  • Bluvshtein, M., Saeedi, S., DeBruyn, N., & Gillespie, L.L. (2021). Mindfulness, therapeutic metaphors, and brain functioning in Adlerian Therapy: Gemeinschaftsgefühl at work. Journal of Individual Psychology, 77(4). 409-426.
  • Bluvshtein, M., Wilson, M., Napoleon, J., Moore, T., & Watkins, K. (2021). Kenneth B. Clark and his “Implications of Adlerian theory for an understanding of civil rights problems and action”: 54 years later. Journal of Individual Psychology, 77(3), 253-275.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (2021). Mea Culpa and what is humanity to do? Adler’s understanding of and approaches to pandemics. Journal of Individual Psychology, 77(1), 59-72. Italian translation “Mea Culpa: che cosa deve fare l’umanità? L’esperienza di Adler durante la pandemia.” Rivista di Psicologia Individuale, XLIX, January-June 2021, 89, 27-42.
  • Watts, R. & Bluvshtein, M. (2020). Adler’s Theory and Therapy as a River: A Brief Discussion of the Profound Influence of Alfred Adler. Journal of Individual Psychology, 76(1), 99-109.
  • Brown, K.S. & Londergan, K. & Bluvshtein, M. (2020). And they lived happily ever after: An intimate closeness of systems and Adlerian theories in the case of a transgender couple. Journal of Individual Psychology, 76(1), 128-140.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (2019). The fundamental views and the need in fundamental courage. Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(3), 188-194.
  • Crossman, R.E. & Bluvshtein, M. (2019). Harold Mosak: Master Adlerian teacher, practitioner, and scholar. The Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(2), 95-97.
  • Mosak, H.H. & Bluvshtein, M. (2019). Faith, Hope, and Love in psychotherapy. Journal of Individual Psychology, 75(1), 75-88.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (Ed.). (2019). Found in Translation, Volume3. Children and Education: Early Contributions to Raising a Child – the Human, the Artist, the Master of Tasks. Fort Wayne, IN: North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP).
  • Bluvshtein, M. (First published July 27, 2022). Where is the unicorn? Losing private hope in the dream of collective “plenty”. Response to David Riesman’s “The search for challenge,” 62 years later”. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (2022). Rudolf Dreikurs: Quasquicentennial. Journal of Individual Psychology, 78(3), 285-286.
  • Bluvshtein, M. & Hilliard, C.J. (2022). “Dear Friends”: A thematic overview of Rudolf Dreikurs’s circular letters written in 1954-1971. Journal of Individual Psychology, 78(3), 295-312.
  • Hoffman, E. & Bluvshtein, M. (2022). Promoting Individual Psychology in the American classroom: The first attempt and its contemporary implications. Journal of Individual Psychology, 78(2), 175-188.
  • Bluvshtein, M., Saeedi, S., DeBruyn, N., & Gillespie, L.L. (2021). Mindfulness, therapeutic metaphors, and brain functioning in Adlerian Therapy: Gemeinschaftsgefühl at work. Journal of Individual Psychology, 77(4). 409-426.
  • Bluvshtein, M., Wilson, M., Napoleon, J., Moore, T., & Watkins, K. (2021). Kenneth B. Clark and his “Implications of Adlerian theory for an understanding of civil rights problems and action”: 54 years later. Journal of Individual Psychology, 77(3), 253-275.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (2021). Mea Culpa and what is humanity to do? Adler’s understanding of and approaches to pandemics. Journal of Individual Psychology, 77(1), 59-72. Italian translation “Mea Culpa: che cosa deve fare l’umanità? L’esperienza di Adler durante la pandemia.” Rivista di Psicologia Individuale, XLIX, January-June 2021, 89, 27-42.
Select Presentations

Select Presentations

Most recent presentations:

  • Bluvshtein, M. (December 3-4, 2022). Socratic Dialogues in Adlerian Practice. Training for Human Guild, Japan Individual Psychology Association, & Adler and the Comrades.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (November 19, 2022). Individual Psychology from 1922 to 2022, and for the next 100 years: Resisting tyranny and promoting humanity. An introductory lecture for the 2022 Conference of the International Association of Individual Psychology “Meet the Sections”.
  • Bluvshtein, M., (Moderator), Koshulynska, Z., Berezyuk, O., Grinko, N. (November 9, 2022). Like never before: Ukrainian psychologists about war, courage, and overcoming. A panel presentation for the APA Division 19 (Military Psychology) Annual Symposium.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (October 15, 2022). The New World, the Old Challenges, the Individual Psychology Timeless Solutions: A Message to Japanese Colleagues. A presentation for the Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology 39th Annual Conference. Nagoya, Japan.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (October 2, 2022). Adlerian Life Tasks: What exactly are they? A presentation for the 2nd Latin American Adlerian Congress. Puerto Rico.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (August 19, 2022). Belongingness: history, theory, and applications. A presentation for the Taiwanese Society of Adlerian Psychology (TSAP) annual conference.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (August 7-11, 2022). Self-care from an Adlerian perspective. A training workshop for the participants at the 30th UK Summer School, Felden Lodge, UK.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (August 1-5, 2022). Using metaphors in working with trauma. A training workshop for the participants at the 55th International Rudolf Dreikurs Summer School. Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • Tekinalp, B., Bluvshtein, M., Belangee, S. (May 28, 2022). Singing the Unsung: Sharing the wisdom of Adlerian women. The 70th Annual Conference of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, Alexandria, VA.
  • Bluvshtein, M. (May 27, 2022). Open Forum Family Education demonstration. The 70th Annual Conference of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, Alexandria, VA.
Awards

Awards

  • Diplomate in Adlerian Psychology, NASAP, 2017
  • Rudolf Dreikurs Award for the Contribution of Advancement of Adlerian Psychology – Adler Graduate School, MN (November 2011)
  • Certificate of Honors for Exceptional Skill in Outcome and Program Evaluation Research, 2002-2003 Year-in-Residence – Capella University, MN (June 2003)
  • Human Rights Award (Individual Category) – City of Eden Prairie, MN (1999)
  • Dean’s Award for an outstanding Thesis – Alfred Adler Graduate School of Minnesota (November 1997)
  • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs Visiting Scholar Fellowship

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