Zoi Simopoulou
Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences
- Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences
Contact details
- Email: zoi.simopoulou@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Research Explorer
Address
- Street
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1.13, 18 Buccleuch Place
EH8 9LN - City
- Post code
Qualifications
PhD in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh
PgDip in Therapeutic work with Children and Young People: Psychoanalytic observation and reflexive practice, Human Development Scotland
MSc in Art Therapy, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
BA Hons in Philosophy and Pedagogic Psychology, School of Philosophy, University of Athens
Responsibilities & affiliations
Member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
Member of the editorial board in 'Psychoanalytic Social Work'.
Postgraduate teaching
- Practice Seminar in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- From two person to three person to the group: a psychodynamic perspective
- Between Counselling and Research 2: Qualitative Methodologies
- Humanities and Arts Informed Research Methods
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
Psychoanalytic methodologies, researching the unconscious, research relationships, arts-based methodologies, writing as inquiry
Psychoanalysis/relational psychoanalysis, existentialism/literary existentialism
Childhood
Publications
Simopoulou, Z., Chandler, A. (2023). Provoked perplexity in live methods. Qualitative Research, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941231210766
Simopoulou, Z., Willis, A., & Georgiadou, L. (2022). ‘Things on Your Doorstep You Don’t Even Think About’: Thinking Intercultural Engagement with Psychodynamic Theory. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34(2), 302–322. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i2.742
Chandler, A., Simopoulou, Z. (2021). The Violence of the Cut: Gendering Self-Harm. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (9), 4650. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094650
Simopoulou, Z., Chandler, A. (2020). Self-harm as an attempt at self-care. European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy, 10, 110–120. https://ejqrp.org/index.php/ejqrp/article/view/101
Simopoulou, Z. (2019). Young Children’s Existential Encounters. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-10841-0
Alexander, D., Bradford, J., Gannon, S., Murray, F., Partridge, N., Simopoulou, Z., Wyatt, J., McCulloch, C., Naylor, A., Williams, L., (2018). An Experiment in Writing that Flows: Citationality and Collaborative Writing. In Riddle, S., Bright, E., Honan, D. (eds.) Writing with Deleuze in the Academy. Australia: Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2065-1_8