The psychoanalytic psychotherapy endeavour in the Greek public sector

Abstract

The paper maps the services that provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults in the Greek public sector, the research projects that contribute to the development of psychoanalytic research, along with the training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy available in Greece. It underlines the lack of adequate psychotherapeutic services available to the Greek population, an unfortunate fact considering the troubled times that the Greek society has been through in the recent years (socio-economic crisis, refugee crisis, etc.). Finally, it discusses one of the prominent problems psychoanalytic psychotherapists in Greece face, that is the absence of official recognition of the specialty or title of ‘psychoanalytic psychotherapist’, as a psychotherapist is not a registered profession in Greece.