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Elena Bezzubova Ph.D.

About

Elena Bezzubova earned her M.D. summa cum laude from Khabarovsk State Medical Institute and a Ph.D. with a dissertation on depersonalization from Moscow Pirogov Medical University in Russia. She then completed a fellowship in medical education at the University of California, Irvine and training in psychoanalysis at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. Her long-term clinical, teaching, and research experience encompasses a broad range of mental health issues. Depersonalization and the existential roots of the person have been at the center of her practice and scholarship throughout her career. She has taught psychiatry and psychoanalysis, authored book chapters and articles, and presented at conferences around the world. She served as a member of the Medical Ethics Committee at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center for nearly 20 years. Bezzubova maintains a private practice as a research psychoanalyst in Newport Beach, California, and teaches at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and at the University of California, Irvine.

Recent Posts
Depersonalization and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis opens up a way to find the lost — depersonalized — parts of “I” in the unconscious and integrate them back to complete personalization.
“At Odds with My Body”

Relationships with our own body are delicate and difficult. Somatic depersonalization is a hidden driver of body image disorders including anorexia, dysmorphia and hypochondria.

Relationships with our own body are delicate and difficult. Somatic depersonalization is a hidden driver of body image disorders including anorexia, dysmorphia and hypochondria.

From Self to Selfie

We used to be Selves. This was in the age of BC: Before Cell Phone. Now, in the age of AC, After Cell Phone, we are Selfies.
Can identity be lost between Self and Selfie?

We used to be Selves. This was in the age of BC: Before Cell Phone. Now, in the age of AC, After Cell Phone, we are Selfies.
Can identity be lost between Self and Selfie?

Teens, Marijuana, and Depersonalization

A teen smokes weed and ends up with a strange shift of existence, not just another turn of an altered consciousness; It is the disorder of depersonalization and derealization.

A teen smokes weed and ends up with a strange shift of existence, not just another turn of an altered consciousness; It is the disorder of depersonalization and derealization.

Digital Depersonalization

Living in two homes—old material and new digital—we are balancing on the edge of reality and virtuality. The disturbance of this balance can lead to digital depersonalization.

Living in two homes—old material and new digital—we are balancing on the edge of reality and virtuality. The disturbance of this balance can lead to digital depersonalization.

To Say "I" Means To Be Alone

Loneliness seems a transient step to self identity that could include depersonalization-like feelings of detachment and autism/introversion-like feelings of isolation.

Loneliness seems a transient step to self identity that could include depersonalization-like feelings of detachment and autism/introversion-like feelings of isolation.

Virtual Reality as a Mirror of Depersonalization

Negative mirroring between cyber-generated virtual reality and the psyche-generated virtual unreality, or depersonalization, opens the way to the quest for consciousness and self.

Negative mirroring between cyber-generated virtual reality and the psyche-generated virtual unreality, or depersonalization, opens the way to the quest for consciousness and self.