Services of Psychiatrist Stavroula Giannitsi
Clinical Psychiatry Services
They include the accurate assessment of the present or past symptomatology for which the person is concerned as well as the evaluation of his mental functions, quantitatively and qualitatively, which are achieved through detailed obtaining of the Psychiatric history during the Psychiatric Examination and lead to Diagnostic process of the disorder and the appropriate treatment with psychological therapies or medication.
The range of disorders I face is wide and indicatively mentioned are the Disorders: Generalized Anxiety, Panic, Obsessive Compulsive, Phobic, Major Depression, Dysthymia, Latent Depression, Mood Disorder, Sleep Disorders, etc.
I believe in the crucial role that the empathic presence and care of the person / patient plays from the very beginning of the Psychiatric examination. The therapist’s attitude as well as the patient’s motivation are key factors for mental change.
Psychosomatic Medicine Services
Even if the etiology is obviously biological, or the physical illness itself has an impact on the patient’s psychological state.
Psychosomatic Medicine introduces the so-called “holistic approach” which is contrary to the fragmentary perception of the diseased organ and in accordance with the ancient Greek approach of the patient as a human whole. Socrates in Plato’s work “Harmides” typically said: “Just as we can not heal the eyes without the head and the head without the body, so we can not heal the body without the soul.”
Psychotherapy Services / Individual Psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy is experienced in the Psychodynamic Context of the session as an evolutionary process of verbalization of emotional experiences, self-knowledge and therapeutic change, which takes place at the request of the interested party and develops dynamically in the safe environment of the relationship with the therapist.
History of Psychotherapy
The ancestors of Psychotherapy can be said to have been in the long run the shamans and magicians of the primitive tribes as well as the philosophy and literature that fueled the development of Psychology.
At the end of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud, a neurologist and neurophysiologist with significant knowledge of the natural sciences, decided to study human behavior using purely psychological methods. Thus arose the foundations for the development of Psychoanalysis on the one hand as a bridge between Psychology and Psychopathology and consequently as a therapeutic method and on the other hand Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with various metaphroid psychodynamic approaches.
Psychodynamic means therapies based on the assumption that conflicting forces within man are responsible for his feelings, thoughts and behaviors and it is taken for granted that some of these forces are at different levels of consciousness while some are completely unconscious.
Psychotherapy Services / Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy as well as Individual Psychotherapy help people to improve their skills in interpersonal and interpersonal relationships and to face the problems of their lives more satisfactorily.
The emphasis placed on member relationships within the group contributes to the emergence of group dynamics and therapeutic factors (eg corrective emotional experience) that lead to personal development, self-awareness and therapeutic change. In my book “Psychosomatic and Group Psychotherapy” all aspects of this therapy are extensively developed.
History of Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Freud in 1906 organized with a group of his followers, the Psychoanalytic Society of Vienna, in which they participated in regular weekly meetings on Wednesday nights (1906-1918), with the aim of promoting Psychoanalytic knowledge. Freud attempted to analyze the group of these people, and in that sense only (and not the therapeutic) could we call him the first group psychoanalyst.
The first attempts at Group Psychotherapy were made in 1907 by a non-psychiatrist, Pratt, at Boston Hospital in collaboration with priests. The patients were needy tuberculosis patients. Since then, various developments have taken place, until during World War II, S.H. Foulkes in the field of military medicine at Northfield Hospital in England, established small therapeutic groups of analytical type and laid the foundations for Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. According to Foulkes, the emergence of the therapeutic process is inextricably linked to two functions of the coordinator, “dynamic management” and “therapeutic function”.
The first has to do with respecting the boundaries of the group and the second with encouraging the active participation of the members, emphasizing the “here and now”, allowing the processes to evolve and the agreement and disagreement to emerge, repulsed trends and resistances.
Consulting Services
This is a process aimed at people who are in a critical period of their lives due to certain events, usually the type of losses (serious illness, death, separation, etc.).
These people need psychological support, but at the same time these situations can be an important opportunity for them to recognize and process their intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts with the ultimate goal of being able to decide and manage the difficulties of their lives and achieve a further personal development.
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All sessions are by appointment.