Elda Abrevaya

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Elda Abrevaya (born May 12, 1950 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish psychoanalyst .

life and work

Elda Abrevaya was born in Istanbul as a member of the Sephardic Jewish minority . From 1970 she studied psychology , first at the University of Istanbul , in 1971 she moved to the University of Paris V René Descartes . At the same time, she completed three and a half years of psychoanalysis with an analyst from the Lacan School. In 1980 she did her doctorate with Roger Perron on the subject of “Les mouvements d'agression dans l'espace institutionnel. Étude des conduites agressives chez les enfants en hôpital de jour “ (Aggression movements in the institutional space. Study of aggressive behavior in children in a day clinic). In 1980 she emigrated to Puerto Rico . There she worked with children and adolescents with psychiatric problems from socially disadvantaged families in a mental health center in Cayey and Caguas and taught as a professor of clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Puerto Rico .

In 1999 Elda Abrevaya returned to Turkey . From there she continued her psychoanalytic training in the shuttle procedure at the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP) until 2005. In 2001, along with Talat Parman, Tevfika Tunaboylu-Ikiz, Levent Kayaalp and Ayça Gürdal Küey, she was one of the founders of the Istanbul Psychoanalytic Association ( Istanbul Psikanaliz Derneği , IPD), which has been recognized as a regional society by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) since 2012 . Abrevaya herself justified her return to Turkey in an interview in the Jewish weekly Şalom with the fact that, as a Turkish Jew, she wanted to participate in the development of psychoanalysis in Turkey.

Elda Abrevaya published in Spanish, Turkish and English. Topics of her publications are her psychoanalytic experiences with children and adolescents from socially disadvantaged parental homes, psychoanalytic aspects of the connection between psychosis and passion as well as articles on homosexuality and bisexuality. After her return to Turkey she also addressed the situation of women in Turkey.

She lives in Istanbul and is a member of the SPP and training analyst of the IPD.

Psychoanalyst in Turkey

Elda Abrevaya helped ensure that regulated psychoanalytic training has also been possible in Turkey since the beginning of the 21st century. In 2010 she was one of only nineteen psychoanalysts working in Turkey at the time, whom Hale Uşak-Şahin was able to interview in Turkey from 2006 to 2010 for a research project on psychoanalysis in Turkey. The first psychoanalysts in Turkey trained entirely abroad were Günsel Koptagel-Ilal, Ulviye Etaner, Celal Odağ, Vamık Djemal Volkan and Elif Ülkü Gürışık. After Uşak-Şahin, Elda Abrevaya belongs to the second generation of psychoanalysts in Turkey who completed their training in the so-called shuttle procedure , i.e. like Abrevaya who commuted back and forth between Turkey and a psychoanalytic training institute abroad. This second generation then began to train a third generation within Turkey and is also available in the country for the necessary training analyzes. Hale Uşak-Şahin sees reasons for the comparatively late establishment of psychoanalysis as a treatment method in Turkey not only in the traditional religious values ​​of the early psychiatrists, but also in the fact that the influence of Western psychiatry, which was certainly present at the beginning of the 20th century, was above all was shaped by experimental psychology and scientifically oriented German psychiatry , while psychoanalysis tended to be received by intellectuals beyond the clinical context.

Fonts (selection)

  • El niño, su sufrimiento y la pobreza. Una experiencia del psicoanálisis en el Centro de Salud Mental. (Spanish) San Juan (Costa Rico) 1992.
  • Del espejo al otro. Un estudio sobre la constitución de la subjetividad infantile. (Spanish) (From Mirror to Other. A Study of the Formation of Child Subjectivity). San Juan, Costa Rica, 1998. (Published in Turkish: Aynadan Ötekine. Çocuk Öznelliğinin Oluşumu Üzerine Bir Çalişma. Istanbul 2000.)
  • La locura como passion. Freud , Winnicot , Lacan, Foucault . (Spanish) (Madness as passion. Freud, Winnicott, Lacan, Foucault). San Juan (Costa Rica) 1999.
  • Deliliğin Tutkusu / Tutkunun Deliliği. Psikoz Sorununa Psikanalitik Yaklaşim (Turkish) (Passion of madness - madness of passion. Psychoanalytic approach to problems of psychosis). Istanbul 2002.
  • Kadinligin Uzun ve Dolambacli Yolu (Turkish) (The long and arduous journey of women). Istanbul 2013.
  • with Frances Thomson-Salo (ed.): Homosexualities: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference. (English) London 2015. ISBN 978-1-782-20313-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elda Abrevaya: "Les mouvements d'agression dans l'espace institutionnel. Étude des conduites agressives chez les enfants en hôpital de jour ” . Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Paris V, 1980
  2. ↑ a b Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon. Retrieved September 29, 2017
  3. ^ Chronicle of the International Psychoanalytic Association . Retrieved September 27, 2017
  4. ↑ Article about Elda Abrevayas in the Jewish weekly newspaper of Turkey Şalom from January 9, 2008. (Turkish). Retrieved September 29, 2017
  5. ^ A b Hale Uşak-Şahin: Psychoanalysis in Turkey. A historical and current search for traces. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2013. ISBN 978-3-837-92073-4 .
  6. ↑ Istanbul Psychoanalytic Institute (Turkish) . Retrieved September 30, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Abrevaya, Elda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey