The analysand’s potential contribution as a supplementary therapist in the analytic process

Dimitris Anastasopoulos, MD, PhD, trained in Athens and London (Tavistock Clinic), is a training and supervising psychoanalyst with the Hellenic Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Hellenic Association of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, of which he is a founding member. He was for a long time a member of the latter’s Executive and Training Committee and, since 2012, has been its Chairman. He was from 2001 to 2009 vice chair of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP), from 2005 to 2010 coordinator of the EFPP Child and Adolescent Section, and from 2007 to 2010 the editor of the EPPP’s book series. He has taught and supervised for the MA course in clinical psychology of Athens University and, from 1990 to 2014, the Cyprus Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, of which he is a honorary member. He has published a number of articles in Greek and English (in, among other journals, the International Review of Psychoanalysis, Journal of Child Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) and is the coeditor of psychoanalytic books in Greek and English.
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