Directory

Horaţiu Nil ALBINI, M.D.

Studies: Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, graduated in 1984, psychiatrist since 1991. Psychodrama education: in 1991 I began my training in psychodrama under the leadership of Hilde Gött, trainer and supervisor of Psychodrama Institute für Europa.

I reached the level of psychodrama assistant in 1994 and the one for psychodrama psychotherapist in 1999, when at the final colloquium I have presented the graduation paper The Social Atom, Source of Unconscious Conflicts; psychodrama psychotherapist accredited by the Romanian Federation of Psychotherapy (FRP) and Romanian College of Psychologists, psychodrama delegated supervisor of PIfE and SPJLM.

Memberships: founding member of the Jacob Levy Moreno Psychodrama Society in 1994, president 1999 – 2011; founding member of the Romanian Psychotherapy Federation (FRP) in 2001 and member of the Professional Committee; IAGP member since 2008. Hon. Member of Romanian Association of Classical Psychodrama ARPsiC.

Main publication: Szociális atom – mint a nem tudatosítot konfliktusok forrása, (2001) Ligetünk-Pszichodráma a gyakorlatban, vol. VI, Animula, Budapest, Hungary

Secretary 2004-2008, Co-president-2008-2013, Newsletter Committee chair and editor of the FEPTO Newsletter 2008-2013, co-editor 2013-2019, webmaster 2006-2019
horatiu.albini@live.com

Norbert APTER

Accredited person-centered psychotherapist (Carl R. Rogers) and psychodramatist (J.L .Moreno), as well as certified supervisor and trainer in both methods, I have the pleasure of running a private practice (individual and group sessions) in Geneva and of being the director of the Institut ODeF, specialized in relational competencies.

For many years now, I have been training psychotherapists in psychodrama, coaches, trainers and managers in Action Methods, and numerous of professionals from institutions, companies and international organizations in soft skills (including listening skills, handling difficult personalities, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, becoming a motivating manager etc) .
In all my activities, I have always highly promoted the alliance of the way of being and the way of doing in professional settings.

My challenge has been and remains: to facilitate balancing structure and creativity.

Development Committee chair 2011-2015
norbert.apter@odef.ch

Krzysztof Mariusz CIEPLIŃSKI, PhD

Is a psychologist, integrative psychotherapist, and psychodrama therapist and trainer. Krzysztof is employed at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland) in the Department of Psychotherapy and Health Psychology as an Assistant Professor. He is a board member of the Polish Psychodrama Institute Association member of the Polish Psychiatric Association and a member of the board for the Polish Association for Psychotherapy Integration. He is involved in psychotherapy with individuals, pairs and groups. In October 2014 he co-organized a FEPTO Research Committee Meeting in Lublin. His current scientific interest is psychology of freedom experiencing, evidence-based practice in psychotherapy and the processes of change in psychodrama as well as Death Education practice and research. He lives with his family in Lublin. Krzysztof is passionate about fishing, collecting coins, meeting people, and sharing ideas.

Research Committee Chair 2015-2017, Vice-president 2017-2019, Development and Network Committee Chair 2019-2021.

k.cieplin@gmail.com

Ana CRUZ

PhD in Psychology, Psychodrama (2014). Degree in Clinical Psychology (2008) and Social Psychology (2000). Trainer of the Portuguese Psychodrama Society and of the Iberian Psychodance Association Jaime G. Rojas Bermúdez (since 2014).

Founding member of the Iberian Psychodance Association Jaime G. Rojas Bermúdez (2009). Member of FEPTO Research Committee (since 2009).

Clinical Psychologist at the Psychiatry and Mental Health department of the Porto Central Hospital. Running Psychodrama groups with patients in Grief, Disthymia and Personality disorders.

14 years of professional experience of community intervention on alcohol-related problems (4 years on an outpatient basis and 10 years in a community of social inclusion, with inpatient clients as Psychologist and Clinical coordinator).

From 2009 to 2013, collaborated with the Pedagogical Psychology Clinic at the University Fernando Pessoa as a Clinical Psychologist, where also developed a Sociodrama group with institutionalized children and where lectured the discipline of Methods and Techniques of Psychotherapy.

Exercises private practice since 2004. One of the main topics of interest is research in Psychodrama, Practice-based research and change process research.

FEPTO secretary 2017-2019
ana.s.dacruz@gmail.com

Zoran ĐJURIĆ

Born 1954 in Serbia, neuropsychiatrist and psychotherapist, married, lives in Belgrade.

I started my psychodrama experience (or journey or trip) in the year 1987 in Belgrade. At that time I was on my specialization on neurology and psychiatry and interested in psychoanalysis. I knew something about psychoanalytical psychodrama (French, Lebovisy) from literature. My professors were biological psychiatrists and not friendly toward psychotherapy.

My elder colleague dr. Dusan Potkonjak, pioneer of psychodrama in former Yugoslavia formed the psychodrama group in spite some professor’s resistance who used to say that psychodrama is »lunatic job«. I joined that group and realized again as I knew it before that I inclined to »lunatics« and other mad and strange people. To tell the truth in that group there were a lot of talented, intelligent and handsome people from different professions… and some lunatics, off course. That group was the basis of education in Morenian psychodrama held by School of Medicine, University of Belgrade and Oxford University from England and professor psychodramatist Andrew Powell. Marcia Karp, Ken Sprague, Susie Taylor, Rudi Nigaard, John Casson were the people who helped our education. I was certified as psychodramatist in the year 1990.
It was really a long time ago. »Once upon a time« in different country, different system with different ideology and approach to humanity. Then all »different« in former Yugoslavia crushed in blood and desperation and I started from 1991 to conduct psychodrama groups with Dusan Potkonjak, Jasna Veljkovic, Zoran Ilic and Vladimir Milosevic.

Dusan left the war country in 1994 and went to England. From 1995 I started to conduct educational groups together with Jasna, Zoran and Vladimir. In 2008 I still work with Zoran Ilic and Jasna Veljkovic in the same organization. It is a success when we know that things in former two Yugoslavias, Serbia and Montenegro and today’s Serbia were nearer to destructive than to developmental trends.

In 1998 I became the president of Yugoslav Psychodrama Association. That organization divided in 2005 in two organizations: Belgrade Psychodrama Center with me as a president and »Institute for Psychodrama«.

In the year 1998 Jasna Veljkovic and I published the first Morenian psychodrama book in our country »Psychodrama and Sociodrama«. In 2003 we, Jasna and me as psychodramatists and Miki Tomic as cartoonist, published »Psychodrama« comic book first in English in Belgrade and after that in Serbian in Belgrade. That comic book was translated and published in Portuguese language in Brazil-it was fantastic, Croatian language in Zagreb- it was funny as Serbian and Croatian language are the same language in fact, as you translate something from English to American English, then followed edition in (better) English by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in London and Philadelphia and it became a serious fact for me, after that we got Japanese translation and publishing by lovely and modest Mayoumi Jamada in Japan and it was marbles and then followed Korean translation in hard covers- this is something fantastic, marbles and dreamlike for me.

I also published about fifty papers on psychodrama, group analytical psychotherapy and psychiatric issues in journals, on conferences and in different books and publications.
In 2004 with Jasna Veljkovic I was the editor of »Psychodrama« journal of that time’s Yugoslav Psychodrama Association.

From 1988 to 1994 I completed my didactical analysis and theoretical program in psychoanalytical psychotherapy education.

In 1994 my education in group analysis held by Institute for Group Analysis from London was stopped after I spent four years in education. In order to form a group I found the job in prison and conducted group analytical group of prisoners on 120 sessions. Destruction of former Yugoslavia destructed my group analysis.

Today I work as a psychiatrist in Psychiatric Hospital »Dr Laza Lazarevic« in Belgrade. This is a hospital with tradition of 150 years. (It is interested to say that Laza Lazarevic was Serbian writer and physician from XIX century who described Lasseggue’s neurological sign some time before that French author published it) I conduct psychodrama and group therapy groups with psychotics and other difficult patients.
I also work in Belgrade Psychodrama Center. We have two educational groups in this moment.

Training Committee chair, 2008-2011
zdujuric@eunet.rs

İnci DOĞANER

Associate Professor Dr. İnci Doğaner was born in İzmir in 1960. She became a psychiatrist in 1991 and became Associate Professor and Psychodramatist in the same year, 1996. She worked in Aegean University (Ege Üniversitesi) as an academician until 1999. She did research on linguistics and psychiatry, in mood disorders and psychotherapy. She is now a supervisor, trainer and practitioner in the fields of Psychodramatic Sociometric Group Psychotherapy and Family and Couples Therapy. She works as the Training Coordinator and Director of Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute and she runs her private practice with clients and groups as well.

She is one of the winners of 1993 Turkish Journal of Psychiatry Award (team research on “The Nature of Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia and Mania”) of 1998 Spring Symposium Research Award (team research on Tardive Dyskinesia in Mood Disorders) and of 2000 Turkish Group Psychotherapies Association Dr. A. Özbek Award (her book named, Earthquake Protagonists).

She is a member of TPB, TGPD, AETD, IAGP and a Council Member and Chair of Membership Committee of FEPTO (2004 – 2008).

Membership Committee chair 2004-2008
inci.doganer@gmail.com

Maria-Daniela DRAGOTEANU 

Director of Psychodrama – trained by Giovanni Boria, Studio di Psicodramma, Milano
Trainer and Supervisor at the Romanian Association of Classical Psychodrama

Psychologist in Human Resources Department of Transport Research Institute; 1995 – 2000: clinician psychologist, at “Saint. Mary“ Hospital, Mental Health Laboratory; 1995 – present : psychotherapist, private activity; 1996 – present : ARPsiC trainer and supervisor; 2000 – present : Manager of Classic Psychodrama Center Founding member of the Romanian Association of Classic Psychodrama (ARPsiC); vice-president Founding member of the Romanian Federation of Psychotherapy, NAO of EAP;

Psychodramatic methodology (Instruments, processes, psychodrama techniques) – 1996; Object relations and the theory of Self-1998; Morenian theory of role – 2000; Psycho-dramatic methodology in training – 1999; Directing strategies in psycho-drama – 2005; Group psychotherapy and psychodrama – 2006,

Membership Committee chair: 2008-2011
danadragoteanu@yahoo.com

Agnes DUDLER

Psychologist and psychotherapist in a private praxis in Bonn since 1982.
Founder and director of the Institute für Psychodrama Szenen since 1991.
Member and representative of the DFP/DAGG and president of the AGPF (Arbeitsgemeinschaft psychotherapeutischer Fachverbände). Chairperson of the Annual Meeting Committee of FEPTO 2006-2011. Chair of the Training Committee 2011-2013.

Work: Counselling and psychotherapy with individuals, couples and groups; supervision and coaching; sociodrama with large groups; trainer for psychodrama.

A big emphasis of my work has been on working with drug therapists, gender questions, helping people to develop in groups, working with large groups and using psycho- and sociodrama to research the interdependent influence between families and contemporary history. Also, for two years I conducted a research project on the topic “Family and National Socialism”. Participants were a group of “children” of higher or lower ranking members of the „Wehrmacht” on the eastern front. Psycho- and sociodrama proved extremely powerful in this context.

Background: After finishing school I moved on to work as a programmer, later as systems analyst at IBM Germany for six years. Whilst studying pedagogic and then psychology I was working for 10 years as an independent IT-consultant. For 10 years I have been training others in psychodrama as trainer of the Moreno Institut Stuttgart until the foundation of my own institute (SZENEN) in 1991. Besides psychodrama, I have also been trained in client centered therapy, breath therapy, bioenergetics, yoga, gestalt- and psychoanalytic therapy. Finally, 11 years ago, I started meditating guided by different western teachers of Tibetan schools.

Annual Meeting Committee chair 2010-2013
agnesdudler@szenen.de 

Pierre J. FONTAINE, M.D.

Born in 1924. Prof. Emeritus of Child & Family Psychiatry, Faculty of Psychology, Cath. Univ. of Louvain. (Belgium).
Psychodramatist trained by Anne Ancelin Schützenberger since 1958 and later also by Dean and Doreen Elefthery (1967). Founded in 1963 and directed till 1993, the psychodrama training school La Verveine Brussels, now directed by Chantal Nève. My specialties: psychodrama training and psychodrama with persons with a motor or mental handicap.
Was co-chair of the VI. International Psychodrama Conference in Amsterdam (1971) and during years member of the IAGP Board of Directors.Was at the start of FEPTO in 1993 and at its foundation in Leuven in 1996. Vice-president and chair of the Training Committee 2000 – 2008.
Main recent PD publications: P. Fontaine (Ed) Psychodrama Training. A European View (2d Ed. 2001). Editor Psychodrama; Studies and Applications (2008). Other activities: poverty and especially collaborative research with poor persons. Publications (Editor) La connaissance des pauvres (1996).
I founded and was during years in charge of a Clinical department of child and family psychiatry at my university and of the training of child psychiatrists. My theoretical orientation is mostly Systemic.I am married with Dorothee, who was also a psychodramatist working in psychiatric hospital and my co-trainer at La Verveine.

Prof. Dr. Arşaluys KAYIR, PhD

I am clinical psychologist teaching at Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical School, Department of Psychiatry for 35 years. I am specialized in sexual psychotherapy and treating women and men with sexual dysfunctions individually, as couples and in groups.
Most of my publications are about sexuality and psychotherapy process in women’s groups, especially women with vaginismus.
I am responsible of training the medical school students and trainees in psychiatry on sexuality, sexual therapy and group psychotherapy.

I am the founding board member and trainer of “Sexual Education, Treatment and Research Association” in Turkey.
I am the trainer and supervisor at “A. Özbek Psychodrama Institute” since 1992.
I was the secretary and the president of “Istanbul Psychotherapy and Group Psychotherapies Association” for 8 years.

Ethics Committee chair, 2006-2011
arkayir@gmail.com

Reijo KAUPPILA 

Education and Training: I am a Psychodrama Trainer TEP. I started studying psychodrama in 2004 in Helsinki Psychodrama Institute, Finland. My university degree is M.A. in Adult Education. I am a certified supervisor and business coach, too.

Work experience: I used to work in a big Finnish organization for 20 years in charge of personnel development. In 2006 I got old enough to do what I really want to do, and since that I have a company, which trains and coaches in organizations in private and public sectors.I am director and trainer in Helsinki Psychodrama Institute in Finland. I give training and seminars in other European countries, too, about using actions methods and psychodrama in organizations, supervision and coaching.

Special interests in psychodrama:

• Training: Extremely interested in adult learning and development. My two main interests in psychodrama training area) to research and develop the pedagogical and educational competences of trainers and training institutes, and b) to concretize, what makes learning in and by psychodrama so special.
• Application: To apply and develop the practice of psychodrama and action methods in
  • organizations,
  • supervision
  • coaching, and
  • change of culture in organizations.

Chair of the Training Committee 2017-2019
reijo.kauppila@ihmis.fi

José Luís MESQUITA  

José Luís Mesquita was born in Porto in 1965 he is a Clinical Psychologist from the ISMAI, Maia Institute of Higher Education. He specializes in interventions with adults and adolescents. He is a Psychodramatist and Sociodramatist accredited by the Portuguese Society of Psychodrama. As a Psychodramatist he leads Therapeutic Groups and Individual Psychodrama, and as a Sociodramatist he works with Couple Therapy and Institutional Groups. He is a Trainer and a Supervisor of the Portuguese Society of Psychodrama and belongs to the Executive Council since 2004. He is currently the Vice-chairperson of the Board of Portuguese Society of Psychodrama. He conducts Psychodrama and Sociodrama workshops in several countries, and participates in European Projects as a Psychodramatist.

For several years he has lectured in the M.A. of Social Education, Social Work and Social Gerontology, in the Public and Private Higher Education, was a Lecture at the Departments of Education Sciences (Polytechnical Institute of Porto) and of Social Service (Social Service Institute, Porto), both in the Psychology Section. Presently he lectures in post-graduate courses in several Portuguese Universities and Institutes. He collaborates with the Non-governmental Organization (NGO), Portuguese Planned Parenthood Association, which serves as a Trainer in the area of sexuality. He is a member of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology.

His earlier studies were in Human Geography (Faculty of Humanities, University of Porto) and post-graduate in Project Planning of Urban Environment (Faculty of Architecture, University Of Porto) where he researched the impact of the “Urban Planning in the Quality of Life and Health on the Individuals and of the Groups”.

He has had activity as performing artist – actor, and he was a founding member of the Group of Theatre “Teatro de Letras” of the Faculty of Humanities (University of Porto) and of the University of Porto Newspaper. He was a Broadcaster at the University of Porto Radio Station. He still writes Poetry edited in several regional newspapers, this being a driving motive of his inspiration to create and develop, with another colleague, a new methodological approach called Dramapoetry: The Psychodrama of the Word.

Membership Committee chair 2013-2015
joseluismesquita@gmail.com

Milena MUTAFCHIEVA

Milena Mutafchieva is Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science and Psychology Department in New Bulgarian University, Sofia. She got her PhD in Cognitive Development in 2007. She has studied Psychology in Sofia University, Bulgaria and got master degree in Developmental Psychology there.She has worked as a key investigator in many international and national projects concerning early child development. She is one of the authors of the National Standards for Early Child Development in Bulgaria.

Mutafchieva main publications are in the field of early child development and especially analogy making, deductive reasoning, theory of mind etc.

Mutafchieva graduated as a psychodrama director in the context of Bulgarian Association of Psychodrama and Group therapy. She is a member of the Board of Bulgarian Association of Psychodrama and Group Therapy since 2009 and one of the founding members of Institute for Psychodrama Practices “Chiron”.

Mutafchieva has private practice as a psychodrama therapist and she is psychodrama trainer for 15 years. Her interests are in the field of research of the effect of psychodrama training and psychodrama therapy and promotion of psychodrama in the world of science.

Vice-president and chair of the Communication Committee, editor of the FEPTO Newsletter 2015-2107.
mmutafchieva@nbu.bg

Wilma SCATEGNI

Medical Doctor Psychiatrist,  Psychodramatist. FEPTO Founding Member, past member of the FEPTO council, past editor of the FEPTO Newsletter, Staff Member IAGP, participant to Granada International Academy from 2005. Analytical psychologist. APRAGIP. C.G. Jung Institut Zurigo Didatta CIPA-IAAP. Past responsible of Psychiatric Unit in National Health Service.

She conducted analytical training groups in Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, United Kingdom, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, and in Italy (where she lives). Editor in Italy of the review “Anamorphosis – Gruppi, Psicologia Analitica, Psicodramma e Intercultura”.

Her more important published books: Psychodrama, Group Processes and Dreams (Brunner Rouledge, translated in 4 languages); L’eredità di Saharazade, Abbecedario per Psicoterapeuti in formazione. Il Mistero di Eranos tra passato e presente – Civiltà e spiritualità tra Oriente e occidente

Newsletter Committee chair 2004-2008
wilma.scategni@fastwebnet.it

Nikolaos TAKIS, PhD

Has studied psychology in the National University of Athens. He received a scholarship from the Greek state for his post-graduate studies in Clinical psychology. In his doctorate dissertation he studied the adaptation and resilience of immigrant adolescents in Greece.
He has many publications and presentations in congresses focusing mainly in drug treatment, adjustment of immigrants in Greece, group therapy and psychodrama. He runs in placement since 2000 in the detoxification unit for adolescent drug users in Athenian Psychiatric Hospital.

He is a full-time professor of Clinical Psychology in the American College of Greece (DEREE). He completed his training in Psychodrama in 2005, in the context of the Greek Psychodrama Society. He was further trained by “Psychodrama Forum Berlin” (directed by G. Stiegler).
He is certified as a trainer since 2010. He works in private practice since 2000 and runs psychodrama self-awareness and psychotherapeutic groups since 2003.

He founded the institute of Psychodrama “ENDOHORA” (means inner world), and runs training groups since 2010. He is also trained in psychoanalysis of groups and he is a candidate psychoanalyst in the Greek Psychoanalytic Society. “Endohora” is a member of FEPTO since 2013.

Annual Meeting Committee chair 2015-2017, President 2017-20121.
niktakis@gmail.com

Eduardo VERDU

Eduardo Verdú is a director of psychodrama, T.E.P. by the Nordic and Baltic Board of Examiners, and a family therapist. Before his psychodramatic education started he was a trained actor from Copenhagen and Los Angeles. Today he is the director of studies at the Moreno Institute Norway (Former Norsk Psykodrama Institute) and works full time with psychodrama with individuals, couples and groups and in organisations all over Norway. He also conducts workshops in many European countries, teaches psychodrama and supervise on all levels. He started his psychodrama education in 1992 and was mainly trained by Eva Røine and Marc Treadwell.
Eduardo joined FEPTO for the first time in Seville in 1998. He is also a board member of Nordic and Baltic Board, PIfE and the Norwegian Moreno Institute. Former chair of the membership Committee.

Eduardo was born in Spain in 1968 by a Norwegian mother and Spanish father. He moved to Norway in 1974.

Memebrship Committe chair 2011-2013, Annual Meeting Committee chair 2013-2015, Co-president 2013-2015
everdu@psykodrama.no

Michael WIESER

Dr. phil., Assistant professor, study program director; psychologist, psychodrama psychotherapist.
Coordinator of psychodrama research in Austrian Association of Group-therapy and Group-dynamics and in IAGP; Council member, chair of Research Committee and co-chair of European Affairs Committee in Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (2004-2008); project member of a Moreno museum near Vienna.

Member of editorial board: Psychotherapie Forum, Springer Publisher.

Office: Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Department of Psychology, Universitaetsstr. 65, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria/Europe.

Research Committee chair 2004-2008
michael.wieser@uni-klu.ac.at
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/~mwieser