Eleni Filippachi, PhD, MSc, BA
Psychoanalyst
Member of The Hellenic Society of Psychoanalysis &Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (HSPP), the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS), the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Domain (EFPS)
About
I am a fully-trained psychoanalyst, member of the Hellenic Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (HSPP), the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS), the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Domain (EFPS) & the Women’s Mental Health Association (WMHA).
I completed my full psychoanalytic training at the HSPP after receiving a MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Medical Settings from Athens University Medical School. I trained in clinical psychopathology at Aiginition Hospital, Athens University Medical School and acquired extensive psychotherapeutic experience in medical settings, most notably at: the University Research Institute of Mental Health (EΠΙΨΥ/UMHRI)-Athens University Medical School, The Κallithea Institute of Mental Health (IΨΥΠΕ/IMHCA) and the Department of Borderline Disorders, Aiginiteion Hospital- Athens University Medical School, where I was an associate psychotherapist from 2019-2024. I am certified in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Borderline Disorders from the Anna Freud Centre (basic training) and have specialized clinical experience in borderline and narcissistic psychopathology.
I am currently in private practice in Athens covering a wide range of analytic cases. My personal analysis includes long standing work in Athens and Paris.
I am also a classical pianist with ongoing training in piano performance and chamber music.
Prior to clinical psychoanalysis, I was an academic in the humanities. I taught history of European philosophy for over a decade at the Hellenic Open University. I received a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a PhD on 18th Century French materialism from Trinity College, Cambridge. I was also a British Academy and Trinity College Post-graduate Fellow and a Stanley Sieger Visiting Scholar at Princeton.
My research interests include a co-edited volume on Wonder and Aporia in Philosophy (Athens, 2023-in Greek) and various philosophical and psychoanalytic articles and talks.
Although I no longer teach philosophy, I have a continuing interest on how the body connects with the mind, on theories and representations of the body, on the ethics of human-animal companionship and on philosophical conceptions of wonder. I relate to philosophy as a particular way-of-being-in the world: driven by questioning, open to the unexpected, tolerant of uncertainty, receptive to both conceptual and non-conceptual forms of understanding; and as a constant reminder of vulnerability, as much as of the liberating forces of human creativity.
