14/03/2021

About Joanna Skowrońska, Ivan Urlić and Val Parker

Peter Zelaskowski

Joanna Skowrońska


I am a training group analyst, supervisor, and teacher at the Institute of Group Analysis „Rasztów”, Warsaw. I run small analytic groups in private practice and staff support groups for health institutions as well as individual and family psychotherapy. I am interested in factors shaping relationships in group analytic psychotherapy and the applicability of groups in a different context. I published on this in Polish and English. For example: The psychotherapists’ relationship with their own siblings as a factor shaping the therapeutic relationship in Maciejewska et all (ed.) (2014) Siblings, Envy and Rivalry, Coexistence and Concern, Karnac; “What happens when you cut a worm?” – Group members as Peers in Ashuach S.; Berman A.: (2022) Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organization Consultancy, Routledge

Joannagrazynaskowronska@gmail.com
Poland; 04-859 Warsaw, 20c Ulanowska st.

Ivan Urlić, MD, PhD

Neuropsychiatrist, psychoanalytical psychotherapist and group analyst. As professor of psychiatry and psychological medicine he teaches on Medical School of the University of Split, Croatia, as well as internationally. He is founder member of IGA Zagreb and IGA Bologna (Italy), where he is training group analyst and supervisor. He was chair person of EGATIN, and board member of GASi (London). In 2004 he was Foulkes lecturer. He was secretary and board member of IAGP, board member of ISPS Int. and is co-founder and deputy president of the ISPS Croatia. He was president of the Dalmatian branch of the Academy of the Medical Sciences of Croatia.

His special interests: Group psychotherapy for patients suffering from psychosis, and PTSD. He founded Regional Centre for Psychotrauma for Dalmatia (Croatia), for treatment of war veterans and their family embers. He has published many papers and chapters in books, and is with M. Berger and A. Berman co-author of the book: “Victimhood, Vengefulness, and the Culture of
Forgiveness” (Published in English, Czech, Croatian, Hebrew, German and Italian). He co-edited and co-authored book with M. González de Chávez on “Group Therapy for Psychoses” (Routledge, 2019), published in English, Spanish and Croatian.

ivan.urlic2@gmail.com
www.ivan-urlic.from.hr
Starčevićeva 3, 21000 SPLIT, Croatia

Val Parker

Psychodynamic psychotherapist, group analyst, supervisor, teacher and writer, and runs a private practice from her home in Oxfordshire. She is a clinical supervisor on the Qualifying Course at the Institute of Group Analysis in the UK and a training group analyst for the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis in Albania. She is a visiting lecturer on the University of Oxford Psychodynamic Studies programme, the Oxford Foundation Course in Group Analysis, and the Diploma in Group Analytic Practice at Turvey.  Her book “A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives” was published by Routledge in 2020.