By: Azad Karimi
I try to learn and understand young people, their interests, values, motives and soft skills they are focused on. There are many jests and reproaches directed on Z-generation, but we all understand that the future is theirs.
Interview
Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Sergii Ugrium
By Azad Karimi
Today is Human Rights Day. I don’t go into details because my introduction is about it but I suggest you read more about this day and its goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Day
Human rights mean respect for the historical identity of a human being who was born and has a place in the world. Frankly, disrespect for human dignity is rooted in human carnal greed, not ideological teachings because ideological teachings are the product of human aspirations to achieve the desired perfection. Thus, it is human aspirations that determine the historical course of human movement to nowhere in the future. Old and tragic stories refer to the violation of the rights of human beings whose right to normal life has been violated, People whose rights have been violated by others and who are eventually forced to commit suicide or are killed. Why?
-Because human greed is endless.
*Why should others have and I should not have? This world is my right!*
We hear these things or we may have said them ourselves.
There is a lot of meaning behind these two short sentences and it may go so far that Hitler, Genghis, Franco, Mussolini, Khomeini, Khamnei, Rafsanjani, Msto Kamal Ataturk, Saddam Hussein, Nouri al-Maliki, Bashar al-Assad, Mugabe, Mulla Omar, Hassan Nasrallah, Erdogan, Pol Pot, Omar al-Bashir and the like should be found in the world their hands are stained with the blood of the innocent. Recently, someone like Hashem Tachi has been added to this list. And Milosevic...
Today, the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the Netherlands sentenced Salim Jamil Ayyash to five years in prison. She was involved in the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. In fact, he was the main perpetrator of this terrorist crime. This led me to think about writing about this international organization in my future articles.
Greed drives people to insane abysses. For example, as I wrote about old tragedies. What tragedies happen in Hamlet and in the Kurdish tragedy of Shirin and Farhad.
Shirin and Farhad are Arabic words but the origin of these two words in Kurdish are Shaare and Faraay.
In the fourth century AD, the people of Armenia converted to Christianity. That is, many of the ancient "Hay"s and "Kurd"s in the area between the lakes of Wan, Sevan, and Urmia. This led to ongoing wars in the area of ancient Armin or Urartu. The Sassanid kings, who had a Zoroastrian religion, waged bloody wars with the Armin Christians.
In the seventh century AD, Khosrow Parwez, the Sassanid king, married Princess Miriam, the daughter of Maurice, the Christian emperor of Byzantium. From 591 AD, Christians lived in peace because the Sassanid king and the Roman Empire were at peace until Maurice was killed by Phocas and Khosrow Parwez invaded Byzantium.
Khosrow Parwez ruled ancient Kurdistan and Armenia for forty-eight years from the time he was a crown prince in 579 until he came to the throne in 590 and then until he was killed in February 628. His summer capital was Shkuz or Shouz and his winter capital was Krmayshan (Kermanshah). He built a beautiful palace for Shaare around Kermanshah in Alimaay (Artmita), where it became known as the Palace of the Beloved (Dasgrt). The palace of the Beloved and the city of Alimaay are now known in Arabic as the Qasri Shirin.
Khosrow Parwez is the beloved king of the Kurds and in Kurdish folklore literature, he has been given beautiful titles: Shaay Taajwar, Khasraw Sha, Paadshaa, Shaariaar, Shaay Klkawas, Shaay Kamarllall...
Unfortunately, I can’t write many details here because they are quickly stolen and registered in the name of all the nations of the Middle East, and the name of the civilization, culture, and identity of the Kurdish nation that owns these elements are not expressed. This means that everyone is the owner of the cultural heritage of the Kurds except the Kurdish people! Of course, when publishing this project as a book, all the details will be added.
The story of Khosrow Parwez-Shaare-Faraay's love triangle ends with Faraay's death. Khosrow Parwez sends an old woman to Farhad to lie to him that Shaare is dead. Faraay, who was an engineer and architect of stone-mountain buildings by order of the king, he was carving Bestoun Mountain to build a palace for him. King Parwez loved Shaare but knew that Shaare loved Faraay, so he decided to destroy him, the old woman, whom the Kurds call Faraaykush or Farhadkuj (Farhad's killer), gave this bad and false message to Faraay.
Faraay, out of desperation, with a mad decision, killed the old woman with his ax and then killed himself. Faraay is a symbol of love, madness, purity, and failure. He fell victim to greed, madness, lust, and the love of the king.
At the end of this introduction, I would like to tell you that please look at these two YouTube links. The first link is to an old song from the sixties called "Shirin Gian" or My dear Shirin by Kurdish artist Shahaaw Jazaieri. This song is sung from Farhad's pains and at the time of its release, in addition to Kurdistan, it was also successful in Iran and Iraq. This song is sung in Kurdish with Gorani dialect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kurc0J45k
In the second link, this tragedy is sung in the style of Laawik in the Kurmanji dialect by the artist Mohammad Walid Efrini.
Efrin is a ancient Kurdish city in near ancient Cilicia area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTHe2y1jLQ
It was interesting that the story of Shaare and Faraay and its crazy ending is related to Sergii's field of work and education.
Thanks to dear Sergeii for agreeing to join our international project. I wish you success and happiness.
Thank you!
Vestland-Norway
1-Please present yourself (Name, education, Civil status and...)
.Hi, my name is Sergey, I’m Ukrainian, I live in the capital city of the country with a difficult but interesting biography. I got masters diploma and postgraduate degree in psychology. I’m single as my official documents say.
2-what is your artistic specialty?
.My almost whole adult life has been dedicated to psychology, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and talent search projects. My university years were also spent on the experiments on the edge of cinema and psychology.
3- When and how did you become interested in this field of work?
.It happened early. I was just 11 then as I remember. I felt I had to somehow connect my intellectual and creative abilities. Human nature is an eternal space for findings, discoveries and new ideas.
4- Who was your motivator?
.I have always been self-defender for my interests. No-one else was able to remarkably inspire me or to influence on me (except for some books maybe), but some people believed in my talent in this area.
5- What was your parent’s reaction?
.Frankly speaking, it was quite sceptical. They didn’t believe in my professional prospective and in my «sterling» professional success. They even tried to talk me out of it. But I am thankful to my parents for allowing me be who I am, however I suppose that many things were unclear for them.
6- When did you become a professional psychologist?
I think that profession is a certain way that is whole life long. Formally speaking I became a professional psychologist after my graduation from university some 15 years ago.
7- Are you thankful and happy because of your activities as a psychologist?
.Yes, I am thankful to the life for being able to dedicate myself to this matter. Maybe I would try myself in neighbouring areas, but still having inner life in the centre of my attention and my interest.
8- How can you see the future of the world in terms of mental health, mental illnesses, prevention and control of dangerous mental illness, maintaining a spirit of global and international cooperation and solidarity to prevent the spread of mental illness in the world?
.I think our mission is to form a social culture of psychological care and self-care. Many people seek help in difficult circumstances when they urgently need to clean up Augean stables. When acute pain is over, many mistakenly consider their problems resolved what is untrue, our everyday thinking rather concernsof local symptoms rather than by real causes. Hopefully we are going to assume importance of real causes and their research, like we do with our physical health. I believe that research of our personality and our inner world will become as much a weekly routine as visiting gym, haircutter or dentist.
Speaking about global trends I'm becoming quite interested in research of our online behaviour and its correspondence to our everyday behaviour.
9- Can you become one part of the cultural movement for motivation in youth or new generations in your country and so on?
.Sure, I try to learn and understand young people, their interests, values, motives and soft skills they are focused on. There are many jests and reproaches directed on Z-generation, but we all understand that the future is theirs.
10- How can you help our world become a better place to live?
.Globally speaking I think that we need to pay more attention to our values. Currently we have to live in such a narcissistic world where value of success, achievement, glory, prestige are in the centre of everything and are even purchased for the price of loss of ourselves and our harmony. Being closer to your real self and being able to open your talents, to stay off trends and all the hype is an important mission and difficult challenge. I will be happy if I can help people to move in this direction.
11- Have you more words to say or suggest for our readers?
.I wish to our readers all the bravery and inspiration in implementation of what they feel their call is.
