JANA JAVAKHISHVILI

Professor of Psychology

Field of Study: Psychology

Biography

The curiosity she maintained from childhood and her quest for finding answers to her questions helped her in her professional career as well. Later, she escaped Soviet inertia, found colleagues in different countries, who had also worked with traumatized people and became the president of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in 2018.

“Find yourself, find your cause, be active, don't be afraid of making mistakes; a mistake isn't a catastrophe in itself, it becomes an obstacle only when you don't admit it. If you acknowledge and use it as an experience, it becomes your capital, your support...”

Jana Javakhishvili, Professor of Psychology at Ilia State University, talks about her life and experience.