Born in 1955.

1978 — Graduated from the Psychology Department of the Leningrad State University.

1985 — PhD Student, Psychology.

1998 — PhD, Psychology, University of Helsinki.

1990–1997 — Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

1999–2005 — Professor at the European University at St. Petersburg.

2006–2013 — Researcher at King's College, Cambridge.

Since 2013 — Professor at the European University in Florence.

The author of the books “Eros of the Impossible” (1993), “Sodom and Psyche” (1995), “The Whip” (1998), “Internal Colonization” (2011, Russian translation, 2013), “Curve Mountain” (2016) and others.

Lives in Florence.