Human-Horse Interactions in Hippovention: Ecopsychological Approach to Psyche Development

Occupation: Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education
Affiliation: Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Address: Russian Federation, Kazan

V. I. Panov

Occupation: Head of the Laboratory of Ecopsychology of Development and Psychodidactics
Affiliation:
Psychological Institution of Russian Academy of Education

Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Psikhologicheskii zhurnal

Edition

Volume 44 Issue 4

Pages

27-37

Abstract

Hippovention, as a direction of psychotherapeutic and personality-developing “Human–Horse” interaction, has been extensively developing in Russia in recent years. In foreign countries many different models (Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy, Equine-Assisted Counseling, Equine-Assisted Growth and Learning, etc.), based on different theoretical approaches, represent similar practices. The systematization of these models allows us to correlate them with certain functional tasks of hippovention as an integral system: psychotherapeutic, correctional and consultative, socio-psychological, educational and pedagogical. However, at the methodological level a contradiction is revealed. The practical implementation of most of these tasks is built in the epistemological paradigm, when a horse for a person acts as an object of his actions, or when a person “subjectifies” a horse (endows it with “human” personal qualities). At the same time, there is a position that horses are inherently endowed with agency in behavior and relationships, which corresponds to the ontological paradigm of analysis of interactions in the “Human–Horse” system. The solution to this contradiction, in our opinion, is possible from the standpoint of the Ecopsychological approach to psyche development (V.I. Panov) and the Ecopsychological Typology of Agent-Environment Interactions created in this approach. This approach is based on the idea of the creative nature of the psyche as a form of being, which finds its manifestation in the psychological capabilities of both humans and horses to act as agents of their own being and agents of social interactions. The analysis of the psychotherapeutic and developmental potential of Hippovention techniques in the context of the Basic Types of Ecopsychological Interactions “Human–Horse” (“Object-Object”, “Agent-Object”, “Object-Agent”, “Agent-isolated”, “Agent-joint” and “Agent-generating”) was carried out. It is concluded that the methodology of the Ecopsychological approach to the psyche development makes it possible to consider hippovention as a system of social interactions built on a single theoretical basis and allowing us to solve various psychotherapeutic and developmental tasks in the context of the “Human–Horse” relationship.

Keywords

ecopsychological approach, hippovention as a system, human–horse interactions, psychotherapy, agent-environment interactions, epistemological paradigm, ontological paradigm

Acknowledgment

The work of O.G. Lopukhova was supported by the Kazan Federal University Strategic Academic Leadership Program (PRIORITY-2030).

Received

12.08.2023

Publication date

02.10.2023

Number of characters

31450

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GOST	Lopukhova O., Panov V. Human-Horse Interactions in Hippovention: Ecopsychological Approach to Psyche Development // Psikhologicheskii zhurnal – 2023. – V. 44. – Issue 4 C. 27-37 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://psy.jes.su/S020595920027083-7-1 (circulation date: 20.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S020595920027083-7
MLA	Lopukhova, O. G., Panov, V. I. "Human-Horse Interactions in Hippovention: Ecopsychological Approach to Psyche Development." Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 44.4 (2023):27-37. DOI: 10.31857/S020595920027083-7
APA	Lopukhova O., Panov V. (2023). Human-Horse Interactions in Hippovention: Ecopsychological Approach to Psyche Development. Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 44(4), pp.27-37 DOI: 10.31857/S020595920027083-7

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