Anna Potamianou

Anna Potamianou was a Doctor of Philosophy and a Fellow of the International Council of Psychologists. Her clinical and theoretical work covers many areas of psychoanalysis, with a particular focus on borderline and psychosomatic organisations, trauma, identifications and aesthetics. A training analyst with the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, she served on the Executive Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

She was a member of the Paris Psychosomatic Institute and served as vice-president of the International Psychosomatic Association. He founded, organised and directed the Centre for Mental Health and Research (1956–1968 and 1994–1998). He served as president of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society (1998–2002) and of numerous Greek and international societies.

He published eight books, three monographs and contributed to the publication of 17 edited volumes. He has published a large number of articles in foreign and Greek journals.

He was honoured with the Medals of the Greek Resistance and the French Red Cross, as well as with distinctions from the Academy of Athens and the Friends of the Greek Red Cross.