Dr. Marina Bluvshtein is a Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She is a full professor and a director of the Center for Adlerian Practice and Scholarship at Adler University (Chicago, USA), a president of the International Association of Individual Psychology (IAIP), and a faculty member of the International Adlerian Summer School (ICASSI). She teaches and presents nationally in the US and internationally in 23 countries. She is an author, a researcher, a clinician, and a supervisor. Dr. Bluvshtein’s areas of expertise include the history of Individual Psychology, women’s voices in psychology, therapeutic use of Early Recollections, Dreams, Metaphors, cross-culturalism, and cross-lingualism in psychotherapy and counseling, and cognitive processes in aging.
In research and publications, she frequently collaborates with colleagues and students. Her most recent publications are:
Bluvshtein, M. (2025). I made fire! I – Made – Fire! A response to “Loneliness” by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1-6. DOI: 10.1177/00221678241273374.
Bluvshtein, M. & Eagle, R. (2025). Diagnostic value of early recollections: Match, rematch, and a perfectly imperfect match. Journal of Individual Psychology, 81(1). [Accepted].
Saeedi, S. & Bluvshtein, M. (2025). Echoing in the Bone and Blood: Adlerian approaches to cultural postmemories. Journal of Individual Psychology, 81(1). [Accepted].
Sperry, L., Sperry, J., & Bluvshtein, M. (Eds.). (2024). Psychopathology and Psychotherapy: DSM-5-TR Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment. (4th ed.). Routledge.
Borg, M & Bluvshtein, M. (2024). Early recollections and the use of Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Individual Psychology, 80(2), 130-148.
Bluvshtein, M. (2023). Tyranny and Wars: From Tyrannical Personality to Mass Tyranny – An Adlerian Perspective. Journal of Individual Psychology, 79(4), 327-343.
Bluvshtein, M. (2023). Individual Psychology as Second Person Psychology: Heinz L. and Rowena R. Ansbacher Memorial Lecture. Journal of Individual Psychology, 79(3), 196-217.
Matsuoka, M. & Bluvshtein, M. (April 14, 2023). Mathematical Interpretation of Gemeinschaftsgefühl in Individual Psychology: Double Limit Hidden in Gemeinschaftsgefühl. Kochi University of Technology Academic Resource Repository, 19(1), 67-71. Kochi, Japan. doi/10.32149/00002514 action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=2242&item_no=1&page_id=15&block_id=22
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. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00221678221111214
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.