OPEN PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTER (1980-2007). Activities and Whims
OPEN PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTER (1980-2007). Activities and Whims, Ioannis K. Tsegos & Associates. Edited by: Natasa Karapostoli, Maroula Mitroutsikou, Gioula Pantou. Athens: Alternative Editions, 2007.
From the back cover:
People’s deviant behaviors are usually not acceptable; deviations from the established ways of dealing with them are also considered unacceptable. The Open Psychotherapy Centre was, and is to some extent, a deviation, perhaps because he believed and believes that deviations are integral and very useful characteristics of nature. This deviation, however, of the OPC, was not the result of deliberation but … of an unconsidered reaction; for this reason, by friends but also by us ourselves, the project is recognized as “foolish”. However, this “reactivity” of the beginning, the folly or deviation lasts 27 years.
The contributors to any project that has been carried out over these 27 years do not consider themselves obligated to give any reference, or reason, to any “official” or guild direction, beyond those who supported the project with their trust.
Of course, there is the willingness to express “we did it”, as well as the pride that this achievement was achieved without external assistance, but only thanks to the intrinsic motivation of the contributors and not due to any financial or other enticement. If there was any “allure” in the soul, it was perhaps the vague expectation of some “difficult truth” of a small Agora of stubborn “sophists”.
All accounts with the necessary historical retrospects, especially when made by the founders and leaders, inevitably have a self-congratulatory content. Much more so when these retrospections extend over a considerable period of time, such as 27 years …
CONTENTS
Foreword, Ioannis K. Tsegos
Introduction
1. The Formative Period, Athanasia Kakouris-Basea
2. Ideological-Political Reflections on Psychiatry and Psychotherapy during the Post-Colonial Era, Ioannis K. Tsegos
A. THE OPEN PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTRE TODAY
1. General Theory, Athanasia Kakouris-Basea, Dimitris Moschonas
2. The Peri-Ego and Representative Psychotherapeutic Schemas, Ioannis K. Tsegos
3. Highlighting Otherness and Utilizing Personality, Ioannis K. Tsegos
4. Unstructured Activities, Ioannis K. Tsegos
5. Group-Analytic-Communal Supervision, Ersi Kouneli
6. Sociotherapy. The Use of Activity in Psychotherapy, Natasa Karapostoli
B. THE THERAPEUTIC SECTOR
1. A Brief Description of the Therapeutic Sector, Athanasia Kakouri-Basea, Dimitris Moschonas
2. The Department of Adult Therapy, Athanasia Kakouri-Basea
3. The Department of Family and Child Therapy, Thalis N. Papadakis, Ersi Kouneli
4. The Psychological Assessment, Christina Terlidou, Thalis N. Papadakis
5. The Summer Department, Athanasia Kakouri-Basea
6. The Psychotherapeutic Communities, Natasa Karapostoli, Themelina Skandaliari
7. The Daily Psychotherapeutic Community, Themelina Skandaliari, Anna Tziotziou
8. The Fortnightly Psychotherapeutic Community, Anna Tziotziou, Efthymios Markezinis
9. The Summer Therapeutic Communities, Themelina Skandaliari, Anna Tziotziou
10. The Group-Analytical Psychodrama, Natasha Karapostoli, Ioanna Katsouri
C. THE TRAINING-RESEARCH SECTOR
1. The Department of Seminars and Conferences, Helene Morarou
2. The Training Communities. Postgraduate Professional Trainings of the OPC and of the I.O.A.A., E.F. Markezinis, Natasa Karapostoli
3. Institute of Group Analysis of Athens, E.F. Markezinis
4. Institute of Diagnostic Psychology, Dimitra Vekiari, Ioanna Pipergia
5. Institute of Psychodrama-Sociotherapy, Natasa Karapostoli, Angeliki Kosmogianni
6. Institute of Family Therapy, Ersi Kouneli, Thalis N. Papadakis
7. European Network of Group-Analytic Training Organizations (E.G.A.T.I.N.), Zoe Vogiatzaki
D. ADMINISTRATIVE SECTOR
The Secretariat of the OPC, Maroula Mitroutsikou
Bibliography – References
Appendix 1: External speakers and topics
Appendix 2: Participation in Conferences
Index of names
Index of topics