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 infant 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
- From two person to three person to the group: a psychodynamic perspective
- Between Counselling and Research 2: Qualitative Methodologies
- Counselling Across Borders
- Humanities and Arts Informed Research Methods
- Practice Seminar in Counselling and Psychotherapy
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