Petrou Michalis

Concluding my studies in Clinical Psychology and Social Anthropology (Lyon 2 University), I worked in an outpatient center for children in Lyon (Le Sequentiel), while teaching Clinical Psychology, Social Anthropology and Ethnopsychiatry at the Higher School for Psychiatric Nurses; I also offered classes in Clinical Psychology at the University of Lyon 2 (1984 – 88).

Then I worked as clinical psychologist in Greece in deinstitutionalization programs at first and then in infantile autism. From 2008 to 2011, I created and directed a center for children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorders (The Perivolaki 3).

Meanwhile, I completed my psychoanalytic training and my training in group psychoanalytical psychotherapy, having been elected member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (2008), and the Société Française de Psychothérapie Psychanalytique de Groupe (2017).

I currently run a private practice as psychoanalyst, group analyst and supervisor; also, theoretic-clinic groups in Greece and Cyprus.

Creation and coordination of Freud Café in Athens, in collaboration with S. Manolopoulos & D. Jackson (both IPA analysts): Open public discussions on psychoanalytical ideas in contemporary society and culture.

I participate in conferences and publish articles in Greek, English and French about collective traumas, mourning, deinstitutionalization, autism, group and the relation between the psyche and the culture.