ABSTRACT
Psychotherapy emerged in our country almost at the same time as the state of Ukraine was formed, at the dawn of the 1990s. It took us almost twenty years to develop therapy in Ukraine, to make this notion acceptable as well as understandable. Therapy in general and the person-centred approach in particular face many challenges in Ukraine at present. Ukraine as a former Soviet republic was also a carrier of soviet totalitarian culture and ideology. According to Bondarenko (1996) one of the serious prerequisites for the development of psychotherapy in Ukraine was the work of Lev Vygotsky (1992) in the area for scientific search of practical mastery of psychological problems. Ukrainian identity is a very complicated thing caused by its long and divided history, at the beginnings of which is the disintegration of Kyivska Rus. Holodomor is the genocide of Ukrainian people, a man-made terror famine in the territory of Soviet Ukraine in 1932–1933.
