BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Konstantinos Monas is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who worked as a member of staff at the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki from 1990 until the end of 2020, achieving the Greek NHS rank of Director.
In the beginning and for many years he worked in the Psychiatric Hospital’s Rehabilitation units, mostly with patients experiencing psychotic and mood disorders. For the last 13 years he worked at the Community Mental Health Center of the Central District of the city of Thessaloniki, of which he also served as the director, for six years. In parallel and for a great number of years he treated patients in a semi-private setting, through the outpatient service of the Psychiatric Hospital.
While at the CMHC of the CD, he worked therapeutically with many cases of mental disorders, which involved primarily issues pertaining to mood (affective) disorders, anxiety and stress related disorders, somatoform disorders, as well as personality disorders. These were treated mostly psychotherapeutically, but quite often also pharmacologically, or less often, entirely pharmacologically. For the last ten years, his psychotherapeutic approach has been exclusively confined to Davanloo’s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
In 2012 he took a six-month sabbatical to work as a trainee in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy at the Center for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, at the side of eminent professor of psychiatry, ISTDP psychotherapist, researcher and trainer, Dr Allan Abbass, who was himself a prominent student of Dr Habib Davanloo, the creator of ISTDP.
From 2013 to the present day, he has been teaching the ISTDP method to resident psychiatrists at CMHC of the CD and to other NHS mental health professionals, through lectures and the use of video recordings of actual sessions with his own patients, as well as through supervision. Since 2016 he also teaches the ISTDP method to mental health professionals through a private program, in collaboration with Medical and Psychotherapeutic Center, Thessaloniki.
Since 2017 he has been a licensed therapist of Davanloo’s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, as well as a licensed trainer and supervisor for the same type of psychotherapy, by the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association. The training program in collaboration with MPC is also accredited by IEDTA.
In 2004 he was awarded the title of Doctor of Medicine by the School of Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, following the completion of a thesis on the psychological impact of infertility on infertile couples.
He left the NHS in December 2020 and now treats patients exclusively at his private practice.