Thomas

Biography

Thomas Hyphantis is a General Adult Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry in the Medical School of the University of Ioannina, Greece. He served as Director of the Sector of Social Medicine and Mental Health of the Division of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Greece (2012-15) and he is Special Adviser to the Greek Minister of Health for Mental Health. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Ioannina in 1990. He is trained in systemic and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has contributed to the development of Community Psychiatry in Greece and especially in the development of units which provide mental health care in remote rural areas (Mobile Mental Health Units) and he has established the first independent psychodynamically oriented Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Unit in Greece within the University Hospital of Ioannina. His research is focused on the complex relations of personality traits, ego mechanisms of defense, psychological distress, and quality of life in patients with medical illnesses and he has published more than 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is the Secretary of the Consultation-Liaison Sector of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, a Member of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) and of the European Association for Somatisation and Medically Unexplained Symptoms (EURASMUS). He is an Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Case Reports in Psychiatry, the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research and Well-Being, and the World Journal of Gastroenterology.

Research Interest

Psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry