Yianna Kefala
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Psychoanalysis
- Bion field theory, post Bionian thinking
- Platonic and Neoplatonic thinking
Biography
I am currently pursuing my Professional Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Essex University. I am a registered psychodynamic psychotherapist (BPC, UKCP, MBACP) and I have been working with patients over fifteen years in the UK Statutory Family Services Department and National Mental Health System. My background is in social work and child and adolescent mental health. I completed part of my studies in Greece and in the USA. I am teaching psychoanalytic theories and supervising students for the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. I previously worked as Counselling/ Psychotherapy Lecturer at Birkbeck University College. I am also a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with the State of Massachusetts, USA.
Qualifications
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Master of Arts, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Social Studies Metropolitan University, London (2013)
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Master in Social Work University of New Hampshire, USA (2006)
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BSW Social Work Higher Technological Educational Institute, Patra, Greece (2002)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
The aesthetics of the psychotherapist and the patient in the psychoanalytic landscape: An exploration of Ogdens analytic third and the aesthetics of the here and now in Platos thamazein.
The analytic situation represents two minds coming together and jointly and asymmetrically entering an intersubjective aesthetic experience. Bion鈥檚 epistemological ideas are based on the individual鈥榮 capacity to bear the emotional anxiety and mental pain, 鈥渓earning from experience鈥�, by entering a mutual transcendent /aesthetic functioning in the analytic landscape.
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Wright , Dr Ann Addison
Research interests
Psychoanalysis,Analytic Third, Aesthetics
My study will offer a landscape for continued exploration of the aesthetics of the 鈥渉ere and now鈥� in analytic work. My project will be seeking to conceptualise the particular silence, aesthetics and subtleties of the 鈥渉ere and now鈥� via the lenses of each individual, this intersubjective state of affairs invites us to join a mystical aesthetic space where our reverie is the fruit of myth, passion and senses.