RESUME
Mixalis Paterakis
“healing means trying to understand oneself. To understand him. To learn why he hates, why he has low self-esteem, why he cannot love, in short to see where all this comes from…”
Academic education
Psychology, Center for Humanities & of Research, Athens, 1997-2000.
Certificate in Psychology, Social Sciences Educational Centre, Athens, 1997-2000
- Psychology, BA, Indianapolis University, 2000-20004 (June 2004)
Bachelor of Arts, Major: Psychology, University of Indianapolis, USA, Athens Campus, 1997-2000 (June 2004)
- Psychotherapy, MA in Integrative Humanistic Counseling and Psychotherapy, Middlesex University, UK, 2005-2007 (May 2007)
Master of Arts, Integrative Humanistic Counseling and Psychotherapy, Middlesex University, United Kingdomm 2005-2007 (May 2007)
- Two-year training program in Synthetic Psychotherapy, “Counseling and Therapy, Athens, (2005-2007)
Training in integrative psychotherapy (two years), Counseling and Psychotherapy, Athens, (2005-2007)
- Two years of training in the person-centered approach of Carl Rogers, Center for Person-Centered Approach, Athens, 2006-2008
Training in person centered psychotherapy of Carl Rogers (two years), Center for person centered psychotherapy, Athens, 2006-2008
- Five-year training program in group analysis, Society for Group Analytic and Family Therapy, Athens, (2016)
Training in group analysis of S. H. Foulkes and Wilfred Bion (five years), Centre for Group and family analysis, Athens (2016) https://www.groupanalysis.gr/
- Five-year clinical training at the Dromokaiteo psychiatric hospital, Athens, 1997-2002
Clinical training in Dromokaiteio Mental Health Hospital, Athens, 1997-2002
Clinical And Psychotherapeutic Education
Psychometric Expertise
- Ink Spot Test, Center for Humanitarian Studies and Research, Athens 1999-2000.
Rorschach Inkblot Test, Social sciences Educational Centre, Athens, 1999-2000.
- Thematic Aptitude Test, Center for Humanities & of Research, Athens, 1999-2000
Thematic Apperception Test, Social sciences Educational Centre, Athens, 1999-2000.
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Analysis Questionnaire, Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, 1999.
Minessota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Psychiatric Hospital Dromokaitio, Athens, 1999. Link
- Rotter Personality Questionnaire, Center for Humanities & of Research, Athens, 1999-2000
Rotter Questionnaire, Social sciences Educational Centre, Athens, 1999-2000.
I have been running a psychological office in Athens for fifteen years. I live in Kolonaki, at 37 Karneadou Street and I accept by appointment.
My different trainings allow me to see patients who are interested in individual psychotherapy and may show symptoms from the whole spectrum of psychopathology (neuroses, psychoses, borderline disorders, narcissistic disorders, etc.).
But I also have the special training to accept families who may be facing significant crises and also couples who want to solve serious problems they have.
The office
What does treatment mean?
People, as you can read in my articles, carry within themselves the problems that were formed in their childhood and repeat them without being aware of what they are doing (unconsciously). So healing means trying to understand oneself. To understand him. To learn why he hates, why he has low self-esteem, why he cannot love, in short to see where all this comes from.
But this is not the whole work to be done. In a real therapy we see the feelings of the client towards the therapist and analyze them.
That’s where feelings toward parents and other significant figures are usually hidden. These are feelings that have been repressed (repressed).
Corrective actions can therefore be made there because the patient relives them in the treatment and thus slowly can start to make different choices.
So the treatment is not to understand only with the mind but to understand emotionally inside yourself what is happening by reliving the issues that have been hidden for years. This is done gradually.
People can both make better relationships and enjoy the little journey in this life as they become more aware of what is happening to themselves. Then, they can see others too so life becomes richer and begins to make sense.