Agarkov, Sergey Tikhonovich

Education

1968-1974 - Crimean State Medical Institute ( Crimean State Medical University named after S. I. Georgievsky ), Faculty of Medicine.
1974-1975 - Crimean Regional Psychiatric Hospital No. 1, clinical internship in psychiatry.

Work and social activities

1975-1978 - Theodosian neuropsychiatric dispensary, doctor psychotherapist, sex therapist .
1979-1983 - Kharkov Research Institute of Neurology and Psychiatry, researcher at the Department of Neurosis.
1983-1986 - Central Moscow Regional Psychiatric Hospital, head of the department of neurosis.
1986-1992 - Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, senior researcher at the Department of Sexopathology.

In 1986, participated in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster ^[1] .

In 1992 he headed the Sexological Association "Culture and Health", within the framework of which the "Center for the Formation of Sexual Culture" was opened in Moscow, as well as the municipal sexological center "Medicine and Reproduction".

Since 2000, he taught a course on the basics of sexology at the Department of Personality Psychology, Psychology Department, Moscow State University .

Since 2005 - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Psychotherapy, Medical Psychology and Sexology of the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education ^[2]

He worked as a member of the editorial boards of the AIDS-Info , AiF- Lyubov newspapers. Together with the Association of Venereologists, Sanam published the newspaper Venus-Press. As a medical expert, he has repeatedly made comments in electronic and print media on sexual issues. In March 2012, he took part in the State Department 2 television program on the adoption of laws in the Russian regions on the ban on “propaganda of homosexuality” . ^[3] In April, participated in the release of the Honest Monday program on the same topic. ^[four]

In July 2012 , after the statement of the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova that “the younger generation should be properly educated and protected <...> from pathological representatives of homosexuality” ^[5] , Agarkov spoke in favor of increasing the sexological literacy of people in Russia:

"Despite the fact that sexology became a separate medical discipline in 1988 , the country has only one department of medical sexology in St. Petersburg and a miserable course at the Russian Medical Academy of Psychology and Psychotherapy. Free sexologists have died out as a class <...> The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Health of Moscow have never was the chief specialist in sexology, who at least prepared materials for the minister’s public speeches and did not allow official “mistakes”.

In Moscow there is not a single municipal specialized sexological center <...> Today there are no regular surveys of the population that have been conducted before, there is not a single full-fledged scientific journal on sexology, and traditional scientific schools in St. Petersburg and Moscow have practically collapsed.

The situation is worse with the help of children and adolescents, as evidenced by a number of high-profile scandals in the press over the past year. <...>

So what do we want from the Ministry of Health?

Agarkov called for the restoration of "the infrastructure of the sex service even to a miserable late Soviet level", "old cadres still able to pass on their experience and knowledge to young people have been preserved." ^[6]

Agarkov is the author of the monograph Marital Disadaptation (2004), co-author of the collective monographs Neuroses and Sexual Disorders (1985), General Medical Problems of Therapeutic Practice (1983), Private Sexopathology: A Guide for Physicians (1983), and Sexopathology. Handbook "(1990)," Fundamentals of Female Sexology "(1998). The scientist owns studies of the mechanisms of development of sexual disorders in patients with neurosis (1980-1986), he developed the concept of sexual adaptation in marriage and its disorders (1988-1992), a system of clinical trials of foreign sexual stimulants (1995-1996). In collaboration with the NIZAR company, Agarkov developed the first series of domestic medicinal cosmetics for sexology based on “blue blood” (1994-1995) ^[2] .

Sergey Agarkov died July 17, 2012 . Cremated on July 19 at the Troekurovsky cemetery , an urn with ashes was buried in the scientist’s homeland, in Yalta.

• Mother - Anna Sinitsyna (1920-1999)
• Father - Agarkov Tikhon Georgievich (1919-1980)
• Wife - Agarkova Tatyana Evstafyevna (1951)
• Children - Konstantin (1972), Maxim (1974), Anna (1976).

• "Sexopathology: A Handbook" / Vasilchenko G. S., Agarkova T. E., Agarkov S. T. and others. - M .: Medicine, 1990.
• “Marital maladaptation” (monograph, Publishing House “ Editorial URSS ”, 2004 ) ^[7] ;
• “Sexuality in civilization: from caves to skyscrapers (the sociogenesis of sexuality)” (study guide, 2010 , together with Evgeny Kashchenko );
• “Sexuality from conception to death: the ontogenesis of sexuality” (study guide, 2011 , together with Evgeny Kashchenko );
• “Theory and practice of psychological counseling in sexology” (a collection of selected lectures by Russian sexologists, including S. Agarkov, 2012 ).
• "Sexuality. From instincts to feelings: the psychogenesis of sexuality. ” - M .: LLC "CPI" Mask ", 2013.

• Site of Sergey Agarkov