Published: March 2025
Keywords:
Dimitris Theodoridis, Fany Triantafillou, Loyalty, Dedication, Certification, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Mental Disorder, Social Exclusion, Unpredictability, Diversity, Non-Violent Resistance, Social Control, State Authority
Dimitris Theodoridis
Dimitris Theodoridis is a psychologist with a systemic approach, a graduate of the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete and holds a master's degree entitled "Criminal Law & Addictions" from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been a member of the Panhellenic Psychological Association (P.P.A.) since 1999 and of the Systemic Association of Northern Greece (S.E.V.E.) since 2007, in the context of which, after his third term on the Board of Administration, he is now President—also a member of EMDR-HELLAS since 2013. In addition to his further training in Systemic Therapy, he has been also trained in Addiction Counseling (David Deitch – University of California, San Diego), in Group Dynamics (Climis Naurides – University of Athens), in Administration and Social Planning (Dimitris Iatridis – Boston College), in Trauma therapy with the E.M.D.R. method (Domna Venturatou – trauma therapy Institute).
His professional career was until recently dedicated to the work of the addiction treatment program "I.T.H.A.K.I." (K.E.T.H.E.A.) for more than 18 years. Initially, he was part of the team that created and developed the unit for teenagers of K.E.T.H.E.A. in Thessaloniki. A bit later, he offered therapeutic work to prisoner addicts in various prisons of Northern Greece (Diavaton, Military prisons of Thessaloniki, Kassandra, Trikala, Komotini).
For 12 years, he served consecutively as the head of the adolescent unit KETHEA EMERGENCE, of the Therapeutic Residence Community of "I.T.H.A.K.I." in Sindos and, finally, the Family Support Center, where he worked until recently. All these years, he has been invited to give many speeches in various regions of Central Macedonia with the aim of promoting the work and philosophy of the Therapeutics Communities, while he has represented K.E.T.H.E.A. with his suggestions-researches in European conferences (E.V.O.D.O.R. – Rome, EFTA – Naples). In 2016, he planned and implemented training in the therapeutic community model for the Varna (Bulgaria) rehabilitation centre program workers. Since this year, he has been working privately.
He lives in Thessaloniki with his wife and their two children.
Fany Triantafillou
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, founding member of The Systemic Association of N. Greece and The North Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, trainer and supervisor at the Institute of Systemic Thinking and Psychotherapy.
Email: triantafilloufany@gmail.com
Abstract
Two persons, mental health "experts", are talking, one choosing the role of father and the other of the systemic inquirer, and they undertake to tell us through a highly personal journey and a particularly moving dialogue, by wandering in the special space of the unexpected, the unpredictable, the certification of the different, the social identity of the person with special needs that puts you on the social margin and pushes you into a world dominated by the NOT, the MUST, silence, and social exclusion.
What happens really, when the unexpected suddenly invades our lives? What disruption does the unpredictable bring? To what paths of conformity or even resistance-silent revolution does it lead us? And finally, all of us wearing our "labels" of the healthy and the unhealthy, where and how do we meet in the societies of control and social exclusion that we live in? Can being different be seen as a form of reaction to the established order of things? A silent "non-violent" resistance against the roadblock of social conformism, conformity, blind faith in institutions and the allure of power?
The video was presented at the SEVE Conference (November 30 and December 1, 2024) in Thessaloniki.
