25/03/2024
GET TO KNOW THE TEAM - ASPASIA KARAGEORGE
- Tell me about yourself!
I’m a clinical psychologist, research consultant, and university faculty member in Sydney, Australia. I grew up in New Zealand with Greece in my heart – two exquisitely beautiful and diverse influences. My endless curiosity centres around reading, writing, asking questions, and the arts - and my two sparkling children. As a 5 year old, I was known for dancing on the table at montessori and throwing handfuls of loose buttons into the air - that urge lives on inside of me.
- What is your role in the team?
I’m a member of the Board and I provide support with quality and rigour, and work more intensively on research papers. In other words, I do a lot of reading, writing, and asking questions (see my interests above). I also have a hand in designing processes and systems to support the Journal’s development over time, and to help bring its goals to life.
- You are co-author with Johannes on the article “The Case of the Charmer: Shape-shifting Seduction, Lethal Splitting, and a Salvaged Treatment Using Conversational Intimacy”, what was your specific contribution?
Writing this paper with Johannes reinforced for me the power of qualitative research methods as the meeting place between human heart and rigorous science. The paper walks through the therapy approach in one of Johannes’ cases. Part of my contribution was the crafting of the container that (hopefully) allows the practice wisdom to shine, and the container to become invisible. And that is all that qualitative research is meant to do. Writing in this way takes a lot of time, a lot of wrestling with the text, a lot of death and re-birth of sentence after sentence. But it is one of the most rewarding ways that I grow as a therapist and a human. And, I believe that every single therapist has clinical wisdom worth sharing in this manner.