About the specialist
Oleksandr Orestovych Filts is one of Ukraine’s most renowned specialists in the fields of psychiatry and psychotherapy. He is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, and professor, and is affiliated with the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University. Open sources list him as the head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Faculty of Postgraduate Education at Lviv National Medical University.
He also served as chief physician of the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Hospital from 2006 to 2016. In 2025, it was reported that he had become the head of the newly established Unbroken University in Lviv.
In professional circles, Filts is remembered as a person who made a significant contribution to the development of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and organizational work in Ukraine and Europe. Sources also note that he headed the European Association of Psychotherapists and served as president of the Ukrainian Association of Psychotherapists.
Education and professional background
Lviv State Medical Institute, majoring in “General Medicine.” Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and group psychoanalyst. Honorary Professor at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, supervisor for the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society (UPS) and the European Association for Psychoanalysis (EAP).