Depression Conceptualization and Treatment (PDF)

Christos ¿Charis has been working for many years as a specialist in psychiatry / psychotherapy and specialist in psychosomatics and psychotherapy. Since October 2006 he has been working as a psychodynamic psychotherapist in his own practice. At the same time he has been working since 2006 as a psychiatric and psychotherapeutical consultant one day per week at the psychiatric hospital (part-time): Vitos Klinik Bamberger Hof, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The focus of his psychodynamic work is depression, anxiety disorders and psychosomatic disorders. Together with Professor Georgia Panayiotou he edited the book Somatoform and other Psychosomatic Disorders, 2017 Springer Verlag. He is a member of the psychosomatic association: Berufsverband deutscher Psychosomatik und ärztlicher Psychotherapie, Berlin, Germany.


Georgia Panayiotou, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Cyprus. She holds a BA degree in Psychology and Sociology from New College of Florida, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Purdue University, Indiana. She completed her Doctoral Clinical Internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and was assistant professor at Mississippi State University before her return to Cyprus. Her primary research interests are in the domain of emotions and emotional processes in psychopathology and their interaction with cognitive processes. She studies primarily anxiety disorders, alexithymia, antisocial disorders and addictions, with the use of both self-report and psychophysiological methods. She is interested in how people experience, process and regulate their emotions and how this is related to mental health and wellbeing. In addition to examining basic processes involved in the etiology and maintenance of these disorders, she has conducted, with her students, several RCTs on preventive and therapeutic interventions for young people, which focus on various aspects of emotiondysregulation. She has co-ordinated or