THE PRACTITIONER
The background
Dr. Christina Moutsou has been practising as a psychotherapist since February 1999. She obtained her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1998. She decided to train as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist after having conducted anthropological research on the experience of living as an immigrant, ethnicity and multiculturalism.
The psychotherapy training
Christina Moutsou has trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Philadelphia Association, London, because of the training's emphasis on the social context and the encouragement to adopt a thoughtful position in one's practice and a critical distance from orthodox psychoanalytic theory. She has successfully completed the training and she has been UKCP registered since September 2002. She is also BACP registered.
Clinical and other relevant Experience
Christina Moutsou has acquired her clinical experience in private practice, a counselling centre for young people in Cambridge, at the Women's Therapy Centre in Islington and in the intensive care unit of the Huntercombe Manor Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital.
She has worked as a house psychotherapist in a Philadelphia Association therapeutic community household for 5 years and she was centrally involved with the re-opening and setting up of this community household. She has been a member of the Philadelphia Association Management Committee for 3 years and she is currently a member of the Ethics Committee. She is a lecturer on psychoanalysis at the University of Birkbeck.
Publications and Academic interests
During the last years she has published widely in the fields of anthropology and psychotherapy. Her publications among others include:
'The fieldwork model: An anthropological perspective on the process of change in long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy', Volume 13, Number 3, September 2011
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642537.2011.596723
''Audit Cultures': A Critical Look at Evidence-Based Practice in Psychotherapy and Beyond', ed. King, Moutsou, PCCS, 2010.
' When philosophy meets practice: Setting up a Philadelphia Association community household' in 'Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis, ed. Gale et al, Routledge, 2008.
'Crossing European Boundaries', ed. Stacul, Moutsou, Kopnina, Berghahn, 2006.
www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php
Her particular interests are: Thinking about the emotional importance of the body, including psychosomatic symptoms, conceptualising difference through an emphasis on the concepts of intersubjectivity and the social context, phenomenology (i.e., what transpires and the history of the phenomenon) in the consulting room.
What being a therapist is about for her?
Christina is especially interested in the clinical work with individuals and couples because of her trust in the healing power of interpersonal relationships. Through her personal and clinical experience over the years, she has come to believe that even though it can take a lot of courage to confront one's demons, therapy can bring about profound change and enlightenment in a person's life.
