Khachatur Gasparyan is an expert at the ARAR Civilizational Research Foundation and has collaborated with the Foundation for more than ten years. His work has focused primarily on education and training programmes for military psychologists. He is an Associate Professor and holds a Candidate of Psychological Sciences degree.
With more than three decades of experience in the field of mental health, Dr. Gasparyan specializes in trauma psychology and the intergenerational transmission of psychological trauma. He places great importance on educating and training the next generation of mental health professionals.
Since 2019, Dr. Gasparyan has served as Director of the Seda Ghazaryan Mental Health Foundation. From 2009 to 2019, he served as Chief Psychologist and Clinical Director of the INTRA Mental Health Center.
In 2007, he founded the Department of Medical Psychology at Yerevan State Medical University and headed the department until 2025. He continues to teach at the university and is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the American University of Armenia. In addition, he serves as Executive Secretary of the Armenian Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Gasparyan earned both his Master’s degree and his Candidate of Psychological Sciences degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University. He completed postdoctoral research in psychiatric epidemiology at Columbia University and was a Visiting Researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
He is the author of more than 70 scientific articles and conference papers on psychotraumatology, genocide trauma (known as the Komitas Syndrome), and the psychological consequences of war and earthquakes. He is also the author of the first Armenian-language textbook on medical psychology, published in 1995, as well as numerous books published in Armenian, Russian, and English.
His current research interests include the intergenerational transmission of psychological trauma, post-traumatic growth, the education of future generations of mental health professionals, and the development of mental health services in Armenia.
