Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from distrust of Russian vaccination

I want to believe that thanks to vaccination, there has been a turning point in the problem of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world. Today, for example, Slovenia has declared to the whole world that it has won covid. There is a growing number of countries that report on vaccination and that more than half of the country's population has been vaccinated. Moreover, these countries are not developers of a coronavirus vaccine. Russia is a developer of the vaccine, but our population is still practically not vaccinated. A paradox!



Everything is going to the fact that we, despite the fact that we are the developers of the coronavirus vaccine, will be in the blockade of the countries that have defeated covid? This can create an unfavorable economic and political situation and situation for Russia, as well as for the Russian government itself. That is why the Russian government is activating and mobilizing the population for vaccination. The health of the nation, apparently, is already a secondary problem.



It must be recognized that the reason for the above paradox, according to the statistical content analysis of Russian media materials conducted by me, is the psychological Phenomenon of Distrust.



There is a lot of debate about what this distrust is aimed at. There is an opinion that this is due to a chronic distrust of the authorities, which inadequately extends to Russian scientific developments. This, according to psychoanalysis, is called a psychological transfer or transfer reaction. According to psychoanalysis, we are always inadequate, since we are chronically unable to feel and see the present and situational, due to the pressure of past traumas and experience. We always see the world through the prism of the past. How to tear this prism of the past from your eyes?



Russians, living in Russia, have long formed a perception of Russia and the authorities, based on past shocks, experience and economic and psychological traumas. And now, suddenly, abruptly and quickly, we must trust the attitudes of the authorities, although in the past we often chronically did not trust them? How to remove this distrust?



To begin with, it is necessary to prove how much this distrust, according to psychoanalysis, is inadequate? Maybe we can somehow separate the flies from the cutlets, they say, we should not confuse distrust of the Russian government with distrust of Russian science?



Therefore, we need to ask ourselves about the chronic distrust not only of the Russian government itself, but also of Russian science itself? I have already written a lot about the situation of Russian science and education. So far, nothing optimistic. We live traditionally and mainly on the basis of scientific and technological imports. This is a fact! And against this background, we suddenly and quickly have to trust one of the Russian scientific and mass development-the Russian vaccine against Covid-19? In fact, this is the first Russian scientific development that suddenly fell on the head of the Russians. And before that, our scientists did not offer anything special scientific and technological to Russians and the world, but if they did, it was not successful on the world market due to various international and foreign economic reasons.



It is apparently ineffective to organize operational psychotherapy against distrust of Russian scientific developments only by demonstrating the military scientific and technological potential on May 9 on Red Square.



How can we restore confidence in our scientific and technological developments? After all, how much time will it take to remove this distrust with the help of the fact that our shops and everyday life will finally be littered with homegrown goods, things, appliances and cars, and not just products made of imported components. All this is just a long-term psychotherapy of trust in the Russian government and science. You can only dream about it so far.



According to psychoanalysis, it is necessary to take into account the impact of real facts, costs and negative reactions caused by the Russian coronavirus vaccine. In the media, the percentage and statistics of these reactions are called. The percentage is considerable. It ranges from 10 to 20 percent. There are Internet and forums on this problem. They write different things. By the way, for objectivity, a comparative scientific analysis of the side effects of imported and homegrown vaccines is necessary. Unfortunately, it is not there yet.



It must be recognized that the Internet brings objectivity to the perception of the problem of non-vaccination against coronavirus in Russia. There is a lot of information on the basis of which people have anxieties, phobias and fears in connection with vaccination. Psychological content analysis conducted by me showed that there is a clash of three directions on the Internet about the attitude to the Russian vaccination against covid:



Supporters of vaccination who have already successfully passed.

These are opponents who do not trust their health and on this basis do not trust vaccination.

Passive ones, that is, those who analyze, study, mature, hoping that gradually the entire Russian society will eventually be vaccinated, without the participation of itself, and the problem will be solved.

The version about chipping and other mass enslavement of the world, according to my analysis, is statistically insignificant.



Thus, to solve the problem of distrust of our homegrown vaccine, a comprehensive program is needed, based on all of the above. One can not do without manipulations on the intimidation of the people, which are now being forced on federal TV channels.



But if all of the above does not help, then it is necessary to buy imported vaccines that Russians can trust. But to do this, it is necessary to conduct a sociological study on the trust of Russians in imported vaccines and how much can this really contribute to the vaccination of all Russians? If we are talking about saving the health of the nation, then the import of imported vaccines should not be limited and the authorities should not show stubbornness in this regard. And yet, I want to believe that our vaccine will manifest itself positively in time and will finally become mass. By the way, only time will show the effectiveness of imported and foreign coronavirus vaccines! This is an open question.



In the meantime, alas, the world vaccination has become a field of political and economic competition between world powers.



Associate Professor of the Institute of Psychology and Education of KFU, Candidate of Psychological Sciences Ramil Garifullin