From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief

Graduated from Hacettepe University Medical Faculty and completed residency trainings in adult psychiatry at Hacettepe and Medical College of Wisconsin. He had a four-year fellowship at the Austen Riggs Center and graduated from Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute as an adult psychoanalyst. He was faculty at Hacettepe, UMass, and Baylor. He is currently faculty and former President of the Board at Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Visiting Professor at Tongji Medical College, China. He also has faculty position at Psychoanalytic Institute for Central Asia, Kazakhstan. In the last 40 years, he maintained a dual interest in clinical care and teaching while directing various clinical organizations. He taught, published and presented in a wide range of national and international forums. His most recent role was as the Medical Director of Professionals Program at the Menninger Clinic. All through these years he also had a small private practice on the sides. Since 2022, he mainly works in his private practice and is involved in clinical work, teaching, lecturing, writing and supervision. Some of his current areas of interest are pedagogy of psychoanalytic training, ego capacities of the mind, the central role of language in understanding the mind, and the controversial/creative subjects in psychoanalytic theory and practice.