Savvas Savvopoulos
Advisory Board Member
Savvas Savvopoulos, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst studied medicine at the University of Athens.
He specialized in psychiatry in Geneva and worked for eleven years in university clinics, where he obtained his doctorate from the University of Geneva School of Medicine. The teaching of G. Garrone, R. Tissot, A. Andreoli, J. P. Junod, A. Gunn-Sechehaye and others on mental disorders but also on the patient-physician relationship has been crucial.
In psychoanalysis and psychosomatic, he was educated in Geneva, Paris and in Athens he studied with F. Pasche, R. Diatkine, A. Green, M. Fain, O. Flournoy, G. Mercier, A. Potamianou and other important psychoanalysts. He is a training psychoanalyst at the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, of which he was the training director, and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
He is a founding member and ex- president of the Hellenic Psychosomatic Society and a full member of the Paris Psychosomatic Institute - P. Marty.