Member of 
Member of
A. The Specialized Personality Disorders Unit and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit (Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) of the First Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) at Aeginition Hospital and
B. The Hellenic Society for Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EEPPSO)
The above two bodies agree to continue their scientific and educational cooperation in the following areas:
1. Clinical Observation Program for Trainees in Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Aeginition Hospital, with Ioannis Malogiannis, Psychiatrist, EDIP, Doctor of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Psychotherapist, Head of the Special Department of Personality Disorders and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit, First Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at Aeginition Hospital.
In this context, EEPO trainees are given the opportunity to observe groups after the third year of their studies. The program includes groups of borderline patients or groups of parents of borderline patients or pairs of borderline parents, with the prospect of expanding to other related psychoanalytic psychotherapy groups.
2. -Partial Retraining Program in Group Dynamics in Psychiatric Settings, which until now has been implemented by the EEPPSO with scientific supervisors Grigoris Vaslamatzis and Klemis Navridis, Professors Emeritus of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and members of the EEPPSO, and Klimis Navridis, will henceforth be conducted under the scientific supervision of Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Klimis Navridis, and Ioannis Malogiannis.
Specifically:
1. Regarding the first area of cooperation between the two bodies:
(a) The responsibility for selecting observers, trainees of the EEP, lies exclusively with the EEP, which assumes full responsibility for their training in psychoanalytic group psychotherapy. The selection will be made after evaluation of the candidates for group observation by group psychoanalysts teaching at the said Society.
(b) The number of EEPSO trainees who are included each as observers in psychoanalytic psychotherapy groups at the Aeginiteio is determined by the Special Personality Disorders Unit and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Department of the First Psychiatric Clinic. It is initially set at 5 (five).
(c) The Aeginiteio, specifically the Scientific Director and the Program’s coordinating committee, is responsible for organizing and implementing clinical observation.
(d) Group psychoanalytic psychotherapy sessions last 90 minutes and are held once or twice a week. Each session is followed by a 30-45 minute post-session discussion between therapists and observers, for the purpose of processing and mutually understanding the session material.
(e) Observers are encouraged to submit a brief written report covering the material of the session and the post-session discussion after each session.
(f) The EEPO undertakes and assumes responsibility for informing and obtaining a written commitment from its trainees who are sent as group observers to the Aeginition Hospital that:
(i) They will strictly adhere to the Hospital’s operating conditions.
(ii) They will strictly adhere to the group psychoanalytic psychotherapy frameworks to which they belong (they will not be absent from sessions, they will arrive on time, they will remain for 30-45 minutes after the end of each session for post-discussion with the group therapists).
(iii) They will not disclose anything discussed in the group regarding patients, either in supervisions outside Aeginiteio or in scientific announcements or publications. The clinical material may be used by observers in collaboration with the Aeginiteio in the latter’s scientific activities. This contract, signed by each trainee/prospective observer, is forwarded by the EEPO to the Aeginiteio.
(g) The group therapists at Aeginiteio also undertake to set aside 30-45 minutes after each session for a post-session discussion with the observers of their groups.
(h) Upon completion of the program, trainees submit a brief written account of their experience of the group’s progress during the observation period, with comments on the personal development of the patients and the functioning of the therapeutic pair, or the therapist in the case of monotherapy.
(i) Upon completion of the group observation by each EEPSO trainee, the Aeginiteio Hospital issues a relevant certificate to the interested parties, which includes evaluative comments from the therapists of the group they joined. This certificate is submitted by the trainees/group observers to the EEPSO Training Committee.
2. Regarding the second area of cooperation between the two institutions:
The one-year Clinical Training Program in Group Dynamics in Psychiatric Settings was developed through a long-standing scientific and educational collaboration between the First Psychiatric Clinic of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (represented by Professor Grigoris Vaslamatzis) and the Department of Psychology of the University of Athens (represented by Professor Klimis Navridis). It was first implemented during the 2013-2014 academic year and, with the exception of the lockdown year, has been implemented annually without interruption.
In addition to Professor G. Vaslamatzis, who was also one of the two scientific co-directors, the following individuals from the University of Athens participated from the outset in various educational capacities: Maria Kokkosi, Chara Karamanolakis, Emilia Charitaki, Diamantina Katopodis, and Aristea Berk have been involved in various educational capacities.
Since 2016, the EEPO has taken over the administrative control of the Program, incorporating it into the educational programs it offers.
We hereby agree that:
(a) Henceforth, the Program will be conducted on the basis of bilateral cooperation between between the EEPO and the Special Personality Disorders Unit and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit of the First Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical School of the University of Athens.
(b) The name of the Program is as follows:
“Interdepartmental” Clinical Training Program in Group Dynamics in Psychiatric Settings. The term “Interdepartmental” in quotation marks refers to the historical origins of the Program as a product of the collaboration between two Departments of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
(c) The Scientific Directors of the Program are Klemens Navridis and Grigoris Vaslamatzis, on behalf of the EEPPS, and Yannis Malogiannis, on behalf of the Special Department of Personality Disorders and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit, or their representatives, will collaborate in the selection of trainees for the Program.
(d) Contributors to the Program from Aiginiteio will participate alongside their counterparts from EEPPSO in the organization, coordination, and implementation of the Program.
(e) The theoretical courses, Experiential Small Groups, Experiential Large Group, Theoretical Processing Groups, and Supervision Group will include (with lectures, co-therapies, or co-supervisions) and Program contributors from Aiginiteio.
(f) The EEPO website will mention the collaboration with the Special Personality Disorders Unit and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit of the First Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical School of the University of Athens at the Aeginitio Hospital, with specific mention of its contributors on the part of the Aeginitio.
In order to achieve the above objectives, a Scientific Monitoring Committee is being set up, in which the EEPO is represented by its current President and a member of the Education Committee or their representatives, while the Specialized Department of Personality Disorders and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Unit of the First Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will be represented by their respective head or representative and a representative of the Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Group.
In order to monitor and coordinate actions, the Committee holds meetings every four months, in which other executives of the two Bodies may participate at the discretion of their representatives.
The cooperating bodies shall review the objectives of the cooperation, the manner of organization, etc., and related issues upon the relevant proposal of one of the parties, stating the proposed amendments to the provisions agreed herein. In any case, the parties shall reassess the entire cooperation and its results two years after the signing of this agreement, recording the relevant results and deciding on the termination or continuation of the cooperation by signing a new memorandum or extending the present one. In the event of a decision to definitively terminate the cooperation, the parties shall be obliged to fulfill their specific obligations.