Centre for Qualitative Research in Psychology and Psychosocial Well-Being

Marina Skourteli is a Chartered Counseling Psychologist (HCPC Reg., CPsychol) and trained psychoanalyst at the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society. She completed her MA and PhD studies at the University of Manchester and City University London, studying the transference-countertransference dynamics that govern the therapeutic relationship. She worked as a psychologist-psychotherapist specializing in the field of mental health in Great Britain from 2005-2013. Since 2013, she has been working as the manager of the Psychotherapy and Internship Service at the "Franco Basaglia" Day Center for Psychosocial Interventions of the E.P.A.P.Y., a structure that provides psychosocial rehabilitation services (individual and group psychotherapy, psychiatric follow-up, etc. intervention home, etc.) to people with severe psychiatric disorders and complex psychopathology as well as privately providing individual psychotherapy, clinical supervision and research supervision. She is an active qualitative researcher with an annual presence at psychiatry and psychology conferences in Greece and abroad with main fields of interest in psychoanalysis, psychosomatics, adult psychopathology and delinquent, violent or deviant behaviors.

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
• - Σκουρτέλη, Μ. &Στυλιανίδης, Σ. (2014) Η αλληλεπίδραση αντικειμενικών και υποκειμενικών παραγόντων στις ψυχικές επιπτώσεις της κοινωνικο-οικονομικής κρίσης: ένα παράδειγμα ψυχοθεραπευτικής πρακτικής στο πλαίσιο ενός Κοινοτικού Κέντρου Ημέρας, Οιδίπους, 11, - Σκουρτέλη, Μ. &Στυλιανίδης, Σ. (2014) Βραχεία ψυχοθεραπεία σε κοινοτικό πλαίσιο. Στο Στυλιανίδης (ed.) Σύγχρονα θέματα κοινωνικής και κοινοτικής ψυχιατρικής, Αθήνα: Επιστημονικές Εκδόσεις Τόπος.
• - Apostolopoulou, A. &Skourteli, M.C. (2015) An investigation into counselling 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. & Stylianidis, S. (2016) Brief psychotherapy in a community framework. In Stylianidis (ed.) Social and Community Psychiatry: towards a critical, patient-oriented approach, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing - Σκουρτέλη, Μ. & Χατζή, Ι. (2019) Ο αντίκτυπος της μητρικής κατάθλιψης στις πρώιμες κατοπτρικές διαδικασίες και στην ψυχική υγεία του παιδίου: μια Ερμηνευτική Φαινομενολογική Ανάλυση. Υπο peer review στο περιοδικό Οιδίπους της ΕΨΕ.
• - 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.