Marina Skourteli 

Dr. Marina Skourteli is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist (HCPC Reg., CPsychol) and trainee psychoanalyst with the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society. She completed her post- graduate and doctoral studies at the University of Manchester and City University London,where she studied the transference-countertransference dynamic of the therapeutic relationship. She worked as a psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in the field of mental health in the UK between 2005-2013. Since 2013 she has been working as manager of the psychotherapy and clinical placement Service at E.P.A.P.S.Y. ‘Franco Basaglia’ Psycho- social Rehabilitation Day Centre, offering mental health services including individual and group psychotherapy, psychiatric and Assertive Community Treatment to individuals suffering from serious mental health difficulties and complex psychopathology. She also works in private practice offering individual psychotherapy, clinical and research supervision. She is an active Qualitative Researcher with annual presence in psychiatry and psychology conferences in Greece and abroad; her main areas of interest include psychoanalysis, psychosomatics, adult psychopathology, perversions, violent and deviant behaviour.

PUBLICATIONS

Skourteli, M.C. & Lennie, C. (2011) The therapeutic relationship from an attachment theory perspective, Counselling Psychology Review, 26 (1), 20-33.

Skourteli, M.C. (2013) The impact of the socio-economic crisis on intrapsychic and intersubjective processes within the therapeutic relationship: implications for the ethical practice of counselling psychology and psychotherapy, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2013.899273

 Skourteli, Μ.C. &  Stylianidis, S. (2014) The interaction of objective and subjective dimensions on the psychological impact of the socio-economic crisis: an example of psychotherapeutic practice in the context of a Day Centre, Oedipus Psychoanalytic Journal, 11, Athens.

 Skourteli, Μ. C. &Stylianidis, S. (2014) Brief psychotherapy in a community care context. In Stylianidis (ed.) Current issues of social and community psychiatry, Athens: Topos Scientific Publications.

Apostolopoulou, A. &  Skourteli, M.C. (2015) An investigation into counseling psychologists’ research activity: motives, facilitators and barriers- a contextual perspective, Counselling Psychology Review, 30 (2), 47-66.

Skourteli, M.C. & Apostolopoulou, A. (2015) An interpretative phenomenological analysis into counselling psychologists’ relationship with research: motives, facilitators and barriers- a contextual perspective, Counselling Psychology Review, 30 (4), 16-33.

 Skourteli, M.C. & Chatzi, I. (2019) Maternal depression and its impact upon offspring mental health: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, manuscript currently under peer review, Oedipus Psychoanalytic Journal.

 Tzeferakos, G., Bali, P., Skourteli, M., Papaliaga, M., Stylianidis, S. ; Douzenis, A. (2019) The notion of criminal insanity in Greece: demographic data, psychiatric diagnoses and agreement between psychiatrists’ evaluations and Court decisions- An inter-rater reliability study. Under peer review, Annals of General Psychiatry.