French and Russian image of psychoanalysis

The replication of S. Moscovici's research ^Psychoanalysis: its image and its public» on the Russian groups (students, the group of intelligency, the «social bottom» group) is described in the report. As a result of the reconstruction the general and the private in representations of psychoanalysis of the French and Russian groups are allocated. As well as in the French research, the Russian students have showed the level of knowledge of psychoanalysis higher than in other groups. In all compared groups the general positive orientation concerning psychoanalysis prevails. In the structure of representations of Russians and French coincidences mostly concern knowledge of psychoanalysis. The maximum share of distinctions in representations of psychoanalysis (an image of the analyst and his attitude towards the client, analysis procedure) is caused by specifics of ordinary life of Russians and French.