About
Tatiana Kokkori graduated as clinical and community psychologist at the university of Padua,Italy with a thesis on the history of a psychiatric asylum in Greece. Her studies in cultural anthopology were followed by her training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has worked for several years in different mental health institutions as well as a private practitioner, and has been involved in the clinical everyday practice with children and adults, within a wide spectrum of contexts.With the opportunity of a research grant and her permanent interest for the history and epistemology of science she undertook a Phd research at the European University Institute, studying the introduction of psychiatric practices and discourses in Greece. She actually lives in Belgium and works as a mother, part time psychologist and independent researcher. Has edited several psychoanalytical books in Greek, published a few articles, lectured to, trained and suprevised young psychologists. She has also given some seminars and lectures on the history of psychiatry in European academic institutions. Her contact and collaboration with the late prof. A.Carotenuto has been incisive for her interest in depth psychology. Mrs Kokkori's longlasting interest for the history of science and epistemology are the result of the deep influence her thesis supervisor Prof.S.Marhaba and prof.M.Armezzani have exercised on her thought and practice back in the early '90's at the university of Padua.The periods she has spent as a researcher at the Welcome Trust in London have been the most enriching and challenging for the study of the history of psychiatry, while the the years spent at the European University Institute offered her the possibility of a unique interdisciplinary perspective.Prof. P.Palmeri's anthropology teaching - inspired by the french school - has left an important imprint to her formation and thought as a reseacher, for which is grateful in her life and practice up to the present.
