Evrinomy Avdi
Evrinomy Avdi holds degrees in Physics (University College of London, UK) and in Psychology (University of Leeds, UK), a graduate diploma in Dramatherapy (Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey, UK) and a doctorate in clinical psychology (University of Birmingham UK). She is director of the Laboratory of Applied Psychology, of the School of Psychology, where she works clinically, provides clinical supervision and carries out research in the field of clinical psychology. She has trained in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is a member of the Scientific Board of the North-hellenic Psychoanalytic Society. Her research focuses on studying psychotherapy process (primarily psychoanalytic, systemic and parent-infant psychotherapy), investigating the experience of serious illness, and the psychoanalytic understanding of social phenomena, using qualitative research methods, mainly post-structuralist discourse analysis and narrative analysis. She is member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. She has participated and managed several research projects in the field of psychotherapy research and clinical psychology, and is a member of several scientific societies. In addition to her research an teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, she works clinically and supervises in the context of the Laboratory of Applied Psychology.
My research interests lie in the field of clinical psychology and primarily concern studying the process of psychotherapy and the experience of chronic and serious illness, through the use of language-based qualitative research methods (discourse analysis, conversation analysis, narrative analysis). My research in psychotherapy centres on the study of processes of meaning reconstruction in the context of the therapeutic relationship. I am particularly interested in the contribution to the process of change of conscious/ explicit/ semantic aspects of the therapeutic interaction with the implicit/ procedural/ embodied domain, with a broader aim to better understand how therapeutic change takes place.
Avdi, E. (2021) Negotiating Diagnostic Talk in Psychotherapy. In: Lester J.N., O’Reilly M. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12852-4_32-1
Avdi, E., Amiran, K., Baradon, T., Broughton, C., Sleed, M., Spencer, R., Shai, D. (2020).Studying the process of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy: Embodied and discursive aspects. Journal of Infant Mental Health, 41(5), 589-602. doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21888
Avdi, E., & Evans, C. (2020). Exploring Conversational and Physiological Aspects of Psychotherapy Talk. Frontiers in Psychology. 11:591124. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.591124
Avdi, E., & Lerou, V. (2020). Discursive and nonverbal processes of joint decision making in couple therapy. In C. Lindholm, M. Stevanovic, & E. Weiste (Eds) Joint decision making and mental health – An interactional approach (pp. 253-273). London: Palgrave. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43531-8
Acheson, R., Verdenhalven, N., Avdi, E., & Midgley, N. (2020). Exploring silence in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adolescents with depression. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 46(2), 224-240. doi.org/10.1080/0075417X.2020.1830297
Lavergnas-Garcia, C., & Avdi, E. (2020). A qualitative exploration of psychoanalytic child psychotherapists’ perspectives on the links between personal analysis during training and professional development. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 46(1), 3-19. DOI: 10.1080/0075417X.2020.1768431
Avdi, E., & Seikkula, J. (2019). Studying the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: Discursive and embodied aspects. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 35(2), 217-232. doi: 10.1111/bjp.12444
Κερώση, Μ.Ι., & Αυδή, Ε. (2019). Η νοηματοδότηση της εμπειρίας του εγκλεισμού και η (ανα)κατασκευή της ταυτότητας έγκλειστων γυναικών: Ποιοτική μελέτη. Ψυχολογία: Το περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 23(2), 109-127.
Salvatore, S., Mannarini, T., Avdi, E., Battaglia, F., Cremaschi, M., Fini, V. et al. (2019). Globalization, demand of sense and enemization of the other. A psychocultural analysis of European societies’ socio-political crisis. Culture and Psychology, 25(3), 345-374. DOI: 10.1177/1354067X18779056
Avdi, E., & Georgaca, E. (2018). Researching the discursive construction of subjectivity. In Strong & O. Smoliak (eds.) Therapy as Discourse: Practice and Research (pp. 45-70). London: Palgrave. 10.1007/978-3-319-93067-1
Avdi, E., Koutri, I., & Mylona, A. (2018). Cultural rupture and subjectivity: Tensions in the personal and professional identity of mental health professionals in times of crisis. In S. Salvatore, V. Fini, T. M. Mannarini, J. Valsiner, & G, Veltri. (Eds). Symbolic universes in time of (post)crisis – The future of European Societies (pp. 173-190). Heidelberg: Springer.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19497-0
Georgaca, E., & Avdi, E. (2018). Developing a dialogical approach to studying psychotherapy. In A. Konopka, H. J. M. Hermans, & M. M. Goncalves (Eds.) Handbook of dialogical self theory and psychotherapy: Bridging psychotherapeutic and cultural traditions (pp. 153-169). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145693
Loewenthal, D., Avdi, E., Chauhan, G., Saita, E., Natri, T., Righi, R, Tompea, A., Giordmaina, A., & Issari, P. (2017). Evaluating the therapeutic use of photocards in European prisons. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 30(1), 67-85. DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2016.1154018
Avdi, E. (2016). Positioning as embodied interaction: Commentary on Guilfoyle. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 29(2), 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2015.1034816
Koutri, I., & Avdi, E. (2016). The suspended self: Liminality in breast cancer narratives and implications for counselling. European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 5(1), 78–96. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejcop.v5i1.92
Avdi, E. (2015). Fostering dialogue: Exploring the therapists’ discursive contributions in a couple therapy. In M. Borcsa & P. Rober (Eds.). Research perspectives in couple therapy: Discursive qualitative methods (pp. 71-88). Heidelberg: Springer.
Avdi, E., Lerou, V., & Seikkula, J. (2015). Dialogical features, therapist responsiveness and agency in a therapy for psychosis. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 28(4), 329-341.
Avdi, E. (2015). Discourses of development in the consulting room: Analysing family therapy with children. Feminism and Psychology, 25(3), 363-380.
Avdi, E. (2012). Exploring the contribution of subject positioning to studying therapy as a dialogical enterprise. International Journal of Dialogical Science, 6 (1), 61-79.
Georgaca, E., & Avdi, E. (2011). Discourse analysis. In D. J. Harper & A. Thompson (Eds.), Qualitative research methods in mental health and psychotherapy: An introduction for students and practitioners (pp. 147-162). Chichester: Wiley.
Karatza, H., & Avdi, E. (2010). Shifts in subjectivity during the therapy for psychosis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 84 (2), 214–229.
Avdi, E., & Georgaca, E. (2009). Narrative and discursive approaches to the analysis of subjectivity in psychotherapy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3(5), 654-670.
Avdi, E. (2008). Analysing talk in the talking cure: Conversation, discourse and narrative analysis of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. European Psychotherapy, 8, 69-87.
Avdi, E. & Georgaca, E. (2007a). Narrative analysis and psychotherapy: A critical review. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 80, 407-419.
Avdi, E., & Georgaca, E. (2007b). Discourse analysis and psychotherapy: A critical review. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 9 (2), 157-176.
Avdi, E. (2005). Negotiating a pathological identity in the clinical dialogue. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 78, 493-511.