STYLIANOS CHRISTOGIORGOS, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School, Department of Child
Psychiatry, “Aghia Sophia” Children’ s Hospital, Athens Greece
Member of the Hellenic Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for children and
adolescents
Place/ Date of birth: Ioannina, Greece/ 04.05.1956
Academic qualifications
Licentiate in Medicine, University of Athens, Greece, 1982
Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Athens, Greece, 1992
Doctor of Medicine, University of Athens, Greece, 1989
Present appointment
Assistant professor of Child Psychiatry, Director, Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University
Medical School, “Aghia Sophia” Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece
Membership of Various Societies, including the World Federation for Mental Health the Greek
Psychiatric Association and the Hellenic Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Teaching
Child psychiatry trainees, medical students, mental health professionals, paediatric/ psychiatric nurses,
trainees in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents
Participation in Multicentre European Community Projects
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“The Leros PIKPA Project of Deinstitutionalisation and Rehabilitation” (funded by the EU and the
Greek Government) (1991-1995)
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Biomed Child Depression Psychotherapy Project (England, Finland,Greece) (1998-2001)
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“Ethical Dilemmas due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics Interdisciplinary Assessment of Effects
of Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics on Couples in Different European Cultures” (EDIG), “Structuring
the European Research Area”. Coordinator: Prof Dr M Leuzinger-Bohleber, Sigmund-Freud-Institute
and University of Kassel, Frankfurt. (016717 SAS6, 2005-2008)
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“Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Enlarged European Union: development of effective policies
and practices” (CAMHEE). Coordinator: prof. Dainius Puras, Vilnius, Lithuania (2006-2009)
Publications
He has 25 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and chapters in books and more than 20
in Greek.
Selected Publications
C. Clemente, J. Tsiantis, I Kolvin, G. Ba, S. Christogiorgos, C. Lee, B. Taylor and R. Miller (2003).
Social Adjustment in three cultures: Data from families affected by chronic blood disorders. A sibling
study. Haemophilia, 9: 317-324.
J. Tsiantis, S. Diareme, C. Dimitrakaki, G. Kolaitis, A. Flios, S. Christogiorgos, G. Weber, L. SalvadorCarulla, J. Hillery and H. Costello (2004). Care staff awareness training on mental health needs of adults
with learning disabilities: results from a Greek sample. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 8(3): 221-234.
P. Christopoulos, E. Deligeoroglou, V. Laggari, S. Christogiorgos and G. Greatsas (2007). Psychological
and behavioural aspects of patients with Turner syndrome from childhood to adulthood: a review of the
clinical literature. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, 29(1): 45-51.
S. Christogiorgos, S. Diareme, E. Soumaki and J. Tsiantis (2007). School Phobia and the Psychological
Processes Involved in its Development and Treatment. Review of Clinical Pharmacology and
Pharmacokinetics, 21(2): 189-196.
E. Soumaki, G. Kolaitis, S. Christogiorgos, Ch. Assimopoulos, P. Mama-Agapiou, J. Tsiantis (2009).
Psychological factors in children and adolescents with Epilepsy and their families. Review of Clinical
Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics, 23(2): 59-66
E. Athanasiadou, J. Tsiantis, S. Christogiorgos, G. Kolaitis (2009). An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of
Psychological Preparation of Children for Minor Surgery through Papet Play and Brief Mother
Counseling. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 78(1): 62-63.
V. Laggari, S. Diareme, S. Christogiorgos, E. Deligeoroglou, P. Christopoulos, J. Tsiantis, G. Creatsas
(2009). Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Mayer-RokitanskyKόster-Hauser Syndrome. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, 30 (2): 83-88.
M.A. Widdershoven-Zervaki, S. Christogiorgos (2009). The dog-girl: The trauma of abandonment in an
adopted child. Melanrummit, Journal of child and adolescent psychotherapy in Sweden, 21: 168-180
E. Athnasiadou, S. Christogiorgos, G. Kolaitis, J. Tsiantis. (2009). Puppet therapy for psychological
preparation of children undergoing surgery. Accepted entry in www.commonlanguagepsychotherapy.org
S. Christogiorgos, E. Stavrou, M.A. Widdershoven-Zervaki, J. Tsiantis (2010). Brief psychotherapy in
adolescent depression: two case studies. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 24(3), 262-278.
G. Kolaitis, C. Fissas, S. Christogiorgos, H. Asimopoulos, A. Tsiantis, J. Tsiantis (2010). Patterns of
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care in Greece. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion
12(4): 58-64.
S. Christogiorgos, V. Vassilopoulou, A. Florou, V. Xydou, M. Douvou, S. Vgenopoulou, J. Tsiantis
(2010). Telephone counseling with adolescents and countertransference phenomena: Particularities and
challenges. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling 38(3): 313-325.
S. Christogiorgos, E. Stavrou, M.-Α. Widdershoven-Zervaki, J. Tsiantis. (2011). Brief psychodynamic
psychotherapy in adolescent depression: two case studies. In: Childhood Depression – A Place for
Psychotherapy (Eds Trowell J, Miles G), 89-109. Karnac Books.
E.Athanassiadou, G. Giannakopoulos. G. Kolaitis, J. Tsiantis, S.Christogiorgos (2012). Preparing the
child facing surgery: the use of play therapy. Psychoanalytic social work 19: 91-100
E. Athanassiadou, G. Giannakopoulos, G. Kolaitis, J. Tsiantis and S. Christogiorgos. (2012). Preparing
the Child Facing Surgery: The Use of Play Therapy. In: Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans' (Eds Baker K, Brandell J), Routledge.
Christogiorgos, S., Tzikas, D., Widdershoven-Zervaki, M. A., Dimitropoulou, P., Athanassiadou, E., &
Giannakopoulos, G. (2013). Hypochondriacal Anxieties in Adolescence. Open Psychology Journal, 6, 69.
Agapidaki, Ε., Souliotis, K., Christogiorgos, S., Zervas, I., Leonardou, A., Kolaitis, G., Giannakopoulos,
G., Dimitrakaki, C., Tountas, Y. (2013). A theory-based educational intervention to pediatricians in order
to improve identification and referral of maternal depression: a quasi-experimental study. Annals of
General Psychiatry, 12:37.
Christogiorgos, S. & Giannakopoulos, G. School refusal and the role of parent-child relationship: A
psychodynamic perspective. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (in press).
Kolaitis, G., Giannakopoulos, G.,Tomaras, V., Christogiorgos, S., Pomini, V., Layiou-Lignos, E., Chara
Tzavara, Maria Rhode, Gillian Miles, Ilan Joffe, Judith Trowell & John Tsiantis. Self-esteem and Social
Adjustment in Depressed Youths: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Family Therapy. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (in press).
Christogiorgos, S. & Giannakopoulos, G. Parental presence and countertransference phenomena in
psychoanalytic psychotherapy of children and adolescents. Psychoanalytic Social Work (in press).