Bachelor’s | : | Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine |
Specialization | : | Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Mental Health and Diseases, Psychiatry |
In 2000, he received his specialization in mental health and diseases at Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. He completed his specialization thesis on childhood traumatic experiences and dissociative disorders. In his thesis, he researched the relationship between forgetting and remembering physical, emotional and sexual traumas experienced in childhood and dissociative symptoms. Psychotherapy of patients with dissociative identity disorder is one of his areas of expertise.
Between 2000 and 2005, he served as a faculty member and department head at Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He received the title of "associate professor" in the field of Mental Health and Diseases in 2005 and the title of "professor" in 2010.
Between 2005 and 2009, he served as Chief Physician and Clinical Chief at Bakırköy Prof. Dr. Mazhar Osman Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Training and Research Hospital. During this period, he managed the process of introducing electroconvulsive therapy with anesthesia and muscle relaxants both in Bakırköy and other mental health hospitals, and served as a consultant to the Minister of Health in the field of mental health.
He worked on projects like "Writing the mental health action plan", "Transition to the community mental health model", "Improvement of psychiatric hospitals", "Architecture of psychiatric hospitals".
He works in the field of "Family and Spouse Relations" and has developed a program on "marriage strengthening" and provides training in this field. He has published books titled "Who would be happy marrying who?", "7 Characteristics of Happy Marriages" and "Traumatic Mistakes & Developing Truths While Raising Children". He also has 25 articles published in international journals and 21 articles published in national journals.
He served as a founding faculty member of the psychology department at Istanbul Şehir University between 2009 and 2015. He has been a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Ibn Haldun University since 2017. While serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Application and Research Center (IPAM), he provides lectures and supervision to clinical psychology graduate students.