EFPP Board

Maria Eugenia Cid

Maria Eugenia Cid

President

Mrs. Cid CV
President of the EFPP. Clinical psychologist, University of Santiago de Compostela and Madrid. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, training at Red Cross Hospital in Madrid and the Tavistock Clinic in London. Psychoanalyst, Associate member of the Psychoanalytic Association of Madrid (APM-IPA).
Involved with the EFPP since its foundation, as delegate and co-opted member of the board for several years. Very actively involved in the development of the EFPP spanish network, as member of the board and president of the Spanish Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (AEPP), currently Spanish Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (FEPP). Founding member, board member and training member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Madrid (AMPP). Clinical work in private practice in Madrid.
Anne Sauer

Anne Sauer

Administrative & Web Secretary

Janaki Hemaratne

Janaki Hemaratne

Financial Officer

Hansjoerg Messner

Hansjoerg Messner

Adult Section Chair

Mr. Messner CV
Chair of the adult section EFPP. Involved with the EFPP for a number of years as representative of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) of the adult section. Brought up in Southern Tyrol in Northern Italy, where people speak Italian as well as German, now fairly fluent also in English and French. Studies of Ethnology/Anthroplogy in Munich (German), later completion of an MA in England. Training of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the Lincoln Institute and Clinic (London), now a senior member there. Founding member and board member of the British Psychoanalytic Council BPF and chairing the Psychoanalytic psychotherapy association within it.
Uri Levin

Uri Levin

Group Section Chair

Mr. Levin CV
Uri Levin is a clinical psychologist, a group analyst and an organizational consultant. He is a board member of the IIGA (Israeli Institute of Group Analysis), and representative of the Groups section in the EFPP board. Teaches at the Tel Aviv University and works mainly at his private practice in Tel Aviv.
Maria Teresa Diez, Ph.D.

Maria Teresa Diez, Ph.D.

Child & Adolescent Section Chair

Mrs. Díez CV
Chair of the Child and Adolescent Section and Honorary Secretary of the EFPP. Psychologist, psychoanalyst. President of the EFPP Switzerland (German speaking part), Psychotherapeutic Psychologist of the Federation of Swiss Psychologists, Psychoanalyst of the Psychoanalytical Institute of Zürich, Child and Adolescent Psychologist of the Swiss Association
Piret Visnapuu-Bernadt

Piret Visnapuu-Bernadt

Child & Adolescent Section

Mrs. Visnapuu-Bernadt CV
EFPP board member and Section Representative of the Child and Adolescent Section. EFPP Infant Observation Working Group member. Child psychiatrist and psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist, working at Marienthal Clinic in Tallinn, Estonia. Chairperson of the Estonian Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy Society.
Anna Zajenkowska

Anna Zajenkowska

Group Section

Mrs. Zajenkowska CV

Anna Zajenkowska, PhD, is a professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. She has a PhD from the Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw. She has also obtained her psychological expertise at the University of Vienna.

She is a trained group analyst, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute of Group Analysis Rasztów, a delegate to the group section and a board member of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

In addition, she has a master’s degree in International Commerce from the University of Korea and has completed postgraduate studies in monetary policy at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She also has several years of international experience in business (Poland, Austria and Korea), which she has used conducting intercultural trainings.

All her activities focus on working with groups and facilitating communication between different communities. She conducts psychotherapy and group psychotherapy in the clinic, but also research related to for example the effects of mentalization trainings among inmates. She is one of the founders and main organizer of the Poland on the Couch Project.

Cristina Calarasanu

Cristina Calarasanu

Couple & Family Section Chair

Mrs. Calarasanu CV
Chair of the EFPP Couple and Family Section, psychoanalytical psychotherapist, trained in relational psychoanalysis in Bucharest, Romania and in link psychoanalysis in Lyon, France. Founder member and secretary of the Romanian Association for the Psychoanalysis of the Family and Group Links (ERP), member in the Scientific Council of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (AIPCF), lecturer in Insight Psychoanalytic School.
Michael Stasch

Michael Stasch

Couple & Family Section

Mr. Stasch CV
President of the German Association of Psychoanalytic Couple- and Family-Therapy (BvPPF). Co-chair of the EFPP Couple and Family Section. Member of the scientific board of the journals “Psychotherapeut” and “Psychoanalytische Paar- und Familientherapie”. Working in private practice in Heidelberg, Germany as psychoanalyst, family therapist and supervisor.