Eugenie Georgaca
Biographic Data
| ID | 1359171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugenie Georgaca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugenie |
| FAMILY NAME | Georgaca |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGACA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5904-2534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What renders living alone a risk factor for involuntary psychiatric admission
Assessing quality of care and observance of human rights in residential mental health facilities in Greece through the WHO QualityRights tool kit
In this paper, we present and reflect upon the process of evaluating two residential mental health facilities in Thessaloniki, Greece, through the WHO QualityRights tool kit. The QualityRights tool kit is a structured process for assessing quality of care and human rights in mental health and social care facilities, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), introduced by the World Health O…
“Their voice becomes my voice”
This article focuses on the important issue of the social nature of self and the ways the different aspects of the self are being internalized through external dialogues. It presents a study that systematically explores the development of the clients’ voices during group psychotherapy from a narrative and dialogical perspective. Thematic narrative analysis was used to study 20 two-hour group therapy sessions of a systemic informed approach that w…
The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research
This chapter advocates taking a discursive and rhetorical psychology approach to the serious problem of online hate speech. The chapter begins by illustrating the prevalence and severity of online hate. It will be shown that, despite being a serious problem, there are difficulties in determining which comments can be considered particularly problematic or inflammatory. This is due to the ambiguity of what counts as prejudice and the likelihood of…
Feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress
This paper describes a pattern regarding the relationship between feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress that was discerned in two independent multiple case studies in Greece. One study utilized grounded theory to develop a model of therapeutic change through recording the development of voice hearers’ understanding and coping with their voices during a therapeutic intervention. The other study applied biographical and thematic …
Internalized stigma and self‐presentation strategies of persons with psychotic and psychiatric experiences
Stigma is detrimental to persons experiencing mental distress, as it impacts on their social inclusion, quality of life, and recovery. In this article, we present the self‐presentation strategies employed by persons with psychosis to manage internalized stigma. A study of the life trajectories of persons with psychosis analyzed 27 biographical interviews and identified five types of biographical trajectories. This article focuses on one biographi…
A qualitative study of experiences during placement and long-term impact of institutional care
Social constructionist contributions to critiques of psychiatric diagnosis and classification
Evaluating the Talking Cure
This article draws upon an extensive review of narrative, discourse, and conversation analyses of psychotherapy in order to outline, critically discuss, and evaluate claims made by these studies regarding the usefulness of these approaches for psychotherapy assessment. These analytic approaches are seen as compatible with the emphasis on language and meaning that characterises much of contemporary therapy theory. The claims regarding what can be …
Representations of “Mental Illness” in Serbian Newspapers
The media are among the primary sources of information on "mental illness" for the general public. This article presents an overview of the representations of "mental illness" in Serbian daily newspapers covering a two-year period, 2003 and 2004. A critical discourse analytic approach was employed to identify the discourses drawn upon to construct versions of "mental illness," the textual strategies through which these versions are constructed, a…
Exploring Signs and Voices in the Therapeutic Space
The recent social constructionist and narrative approaches to subjectivity and psychotherapy tend to exclude psychoanalysis as essentialist and reductionist. This paper revisits psychoanalytic theory, and particularly Lacanian psychoanalysis, and discusses its relevance for a semiotic understanding of subjectivity. It draws upon Lacan's and Bakhtin's theories to outline a theory of subjectivity as a constellation of linguistically produced and en…
Voices of the self in psychotherapy
Approaches that view the self as constituted by socio‐cultural processes and as plural, consisting of a multiplicity of states, positions, functions, etc., have flourished in the last decades. This paper explores the multi‐voiced nature of the self, drawing upon Lacan's theory of subjectivity and Bakhtin's concept of dialogism. Subjectivity is seen as constituted through language as expressed in the speech of the subject's important early others.…
Reality and discourse
Delusions are seen in psychiatric research and practice as central indicators of the psychotic loss of contact with reality. In this paper the psychiatric concept of ‘delusions’ is critically examined both theoretically and through the analysis of extracts from interviews with individuals diagnosed as ‘delusional’. The diagnostic criteria for delusions, implausibility, idiosyncrasy, conviction and incorrigibility, are scrutinized, and the notion …
Deconstructing Psychopathology
Social constructionist contributions to critiques of psychiatric diagnosis and classification
Evaluating the Talking Cure
This article draws upon an extensive review of narrative, discourse, and conversation analyses of psychotherapy in order to outline, critically discuss, and evaluate claims made by these studies regarding the usefulness of these approaches for psychotherapy assessment. These analytic approaches are seen as compatible with the emphasis on language and meaning that characterises much of contemporary therapy theory. The claims regarding what can be …
Representations of “Mental Illness” in Serbian Newspapers
The media are among the primary sources of information on "mental illness" for the general public. This article presents an overview of the representations of "mental illness" in Serbian daily newspapers covering a two-year period, 2003 and 2004. A critical discourse analytic approach was employed to identify the discourses drawn upon to construct versions of "mental illness," the textual strategies through which these versions are constructed, a…
Reality and discourse
Delusions are seen in psychiatric research and practice as central indicators of the psychotic loss of contact with reality. In this paper the psychiatric concept of ‘delusions’ is critically examined both theoretically and through the analysis of extracts from interviews with individuals diagnosed as ‘delusional’. The diagnostic criteria for delusions, implausibility, idiosyncrasy, conviction and incorrigibility, are scrutinized, and the notion …
Voices of the self in psychotherapy
Approaches that view the self as constituted by socio‐cultural processes and as plural, consisting of a multiplicity of states, positions, functions, etc., have flourished in the last decades. This paper explores the multi‐voiced nature of the self, drawing upon Lacan's theory of subjectivity and Bakhtin's concept of dialogism. Subjectivity is seen as constituted through language as expressed in the speech of the subject's important early others.…
Internalized stigma and self‐presentation strategies of persons with psychotic and psychiatric experiences
Stigma is detrimental to persons experiencing mental distress, as it impacts on their social inclusion, quality of life, and recovery. In this article, we present the self‐presentation strategies employed by persons with psychosis to manage internalized stigma. A study of the life trajectories of persons with psychosis analyzed 27 biographical interviews and identified five types of biographical trajectories. This article focuses on one biographi…
A qualitative study of experiences during placement and long-term impact of institutional care
Deconstructing Psychopathology
Reality and discourse
Delusions are seen in psychiatric research and practice as central indicators of the psychotic loss of contact with reality. In this paper the psychiatric concept of ‘delusions’ is critically examined both theoretically and through the analysis of extracts from interviews with individuals diagnosed as ‘delusional’. The diagnostic criteria for delusions, implausibility, idiosyncrasy, conviction and incorrigibility, are scrutinized, and the notion …
Voices of the self in psychotherapy
Approaches that view the self as constituted by socio‐cultural processes and as plural, consisting of a multiplicity of states, positions, functions, etc., have flourished in the last decades. This paper explores the multi‐voiced nature of the self, drawing upon Lacan's theory of subjectivity and Bakhtin's concept of dialogism. Subjectivity is seen as constituted through language as expressed in the speech of the subject's important early others.…
Exploring Signs and Voices in the Therapeutic Space
The recent social constructionist and narrative approaches to subjectivity and psychotherapy tend to exclude psychoanalysis as essentialist and reductionist. This paper revisits psychoanalytic theory, and particularly Lacanian psychoanalysis, and discusses its relevance for a semiotic understanding of subjectivity. It draws upon Lacan's and Bakhtin's theories to outline a theory of subjectivity as a constellation of linguistically produced and en…
Representations of “Mental Illness” in Serbian Newspapers
The media are among the primary sources of information on "mental illness" for the general public. This article presents an overview of the representations of "mental illness" in Serbian daily newspapers covering a two-year period, 2003 and 2004. A critical discourse analytic approach was employed to identify the discourses drawn upon to construct versions of "mental illness," the textual strategies through which these versions are constructed, a…
Evaluating the Talking Cure
This article draws upon an extensive review of narrative, discourse, and conversation analyses of psychotherapy in order to outline, critically discuss, and evaluate claims made by these studies regarding the usefulness of these approaches for psychotherapy assessment. These analytic approaches are seen as compatible with the emphasis on language and meaning that characterises much of contemporary therapy theory. The claims regarding what can be …
Social constructionist contributions to critiques of psychiatric diagnosis and classification
A qualitative study of experiences during placement and long-term impact of institutional care
Feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress
This paper describes a pattern regarding the relationship between feminine sexuality, religiousness and psychotic distress that was discerned in two independent multiple case studies in Greece. One study utilized grounded theory to develop a model of therapeutic change through recording the development of voice hearers’ understanding and coping with their voices during a therapeutic intervention. The other study applied biographical and thematic …
Internalized stigma and self‐presentation strategies of persons with psychotic and psychiatric experiences
Stigma is detrimental to persons experiencing mental distress, as it impacts on their social inclusion, quality of life, and recovery. In this article, we present the self‐presentation strategies employed by persons with psychosis to manage internalized stigma. A study of the life trajectories of persons with psychosis analyzed 27 biographical interviews and identified five types of biographical trajectories. This article focuses on one biographi…
What renders living alone a risk factor for involuntary psychiatric admission
Assessing quality of care and observance of human rights in residential mental health facilities in Greece through the WHO QualityRights tool kit
In this paper, we present and reflect upon the process of evaluating two residential mental health facilities in Thessaloniki, Greece, through the WHO QualityRights tool kit. The QualityRights tool kit is a structured process for assessing quality of care and human rights in mental health and social care facilities, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), introduced by the World Health O…
“Their voice becomes my voice”
This article focuses on the important issue of the social nature of self and the ways the different aspects of the self are being internalized through external dialogues. It presents a study that systematically explores the development of the clients’ voices during group psychotherapy from a narrative and dialogical perspective. Thematic narrative analysis was used to study 20 two-hour group therapy sessions of a systemic informed approach that w…
The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research
This chapter advocates taking a discursive and rhetorical psychology approach to the serious problem of online hate speech. The chapter begins by illustrating the prevalence and severity of online hate. It will be shown that, despite being a serious problem, there are difficulties in determining which comments can be considered particularly problematic or inflammatory. This is due to the ambiguity of what counts as prejudice and the likelihood of…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works)