“A woman is a woman’s house”: the path of Svetlana Menshikova
We present to your attention Svetlana Menshchikova is the Deputy Director of the Department of Social Design and Crisis Intervention at the NGO International Women's Union. Svetlana Menshchikova came to psychology from a completely different professional reality. Before psychology, she had two professions — a regional scientist and an economist, neither of which had anything to do with feelings. But long before graduation, people came to her with their stories — friends, colleagues, unfamiliar fellow travelers on trains and the subway. They opened up and said things they usually keep to themselves. Her own life forced her to figure out what to do with it. When my son was two years old, Svetlana got divorced. Almost immediately, a difficult period began in the parental family — it took so much effort…