Revaz Korinteli is a full professor of psychology at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the founding president of the Georgian Association of Analytical Psychology and the Georgian Group Psychotherapy Association, positions he has held since 2002. Born in 1951 in Tbilisi, he completed his medical studies at Tbilisi State Medical University in 1976 and his psychiatry internship at Tbilisi Mental Health Hospital, subsequently serving as a senior researcher at the M. Asatiani Research Institute of Psychiatry from 1982 to 2001.
Korinteli's analytic formation is distinctly international. He undertook Jungian psychoanalytic training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1993 and 1995-1996, and received additional training in French psychoanalysis in Paris in 2002. He completed specialized training in psychotherapy and medical psychology in Moscow in 1986. His clinical work in group psychotherapy began in 1988 in the department of neuroses at the Tbilisi Mental Hospital and has continued across diverse organizational settings.
A fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association since 2010 and a board member of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy since 2020, Korinteli has authored over forty scholarly publications and multiple books on psychotherapy, psychiatry, and psychological theory. His research interests encompass depth psychology, individual and group psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, philosophy, mythology, and comparative religion. He currently teaches eleven psychology courses at Ilia State University, including clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, group psychotherapy, and counseling.
Training & lineage
- MD Tbilisi State Medical University
- Jungian Psychoanalytic Training C.G. Jung Institute Zurich
- Training in French Psychoanalysis Paris