Issue 17, October 2020

Introduction One could say that the present issue is a “tribute”: An “offering” to this “science fiction” situation that our country and all of the world is going through. The

George Freris, in memoriam George Freris left us on the afternoon of Tuesday 23rd of September 2020, as he was working in  Sotiria Hospital, where he was the head of

  Letter from the Chairman of the Hellenic Federation of Systemic Societies and Family Therapy (ETHOS) Dimitris Karagiannis HELLENIC FEDERATION OF SYSTEMIC THERAPY SOCIETIES   Dear members of the «Systemic

A poem the covid-19 pandemic

"Coronavirus" " is the master of the meaning of our times. All the individual and collective fantasies around the virus present it as a demonic force, the quintessence of evil, insidiously invading the body, violating the limits of the Ego, and destroying the organism

2020 is a year where most of us experienced an unprecedented situation: the spreading of the coronavirus and the quarantine. During lockdown, the internet proved to be life-saving for communicating with relatives, friends and acquaintances. It was the internet that “gave birth” to the two following projects.

The COVID-19 pandemic, as a sudden, unexpected, as well as ongoing, situation with no a visible end, has affected our lives in many ways, and has made us consider the impact especially on children and adolescents, in terms of mental illness prevention.

The present paper describes the experience of a pilot group of multiple family therapy that took place in the Psychiatric Department of the “Sismanoglio” Hospital

Through the presentation of clinical material, we will investigate how the mother’s illness and subsequent death during her daughter’s adolescence can complicate the young girl’s journey of discovering herself, contribute to pre-oedipal fixations and influence her sexual selection of object.

The concept of repetition, of the act, that is, and of the outcome of “repeating” can be found in many fields.