ABSTRACT
This chapter chronicles the history of Society by recording and revisiting the events that marked the developments of psychoanalysis in Greece. Events surrounding early attempts to found a psychoanalytic group in Greece have been recorded by N. Tzavaras, Kontos. J, Sotiris Manolopoulos, and D. Kouretas, and P. Hartocollis. During the 1970s and 1980s Greece moved towards democracy, joined the European Community, and began to become an open society. In 1980, Hartocollis, from the Menninger Clinic, took the Chair of Psychiatry at Patras University, and was soon joined by S. Beratis. He was approached in 1981 by S. Lebovici, who then wrote to the president of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), A. Limentani, regarding the founding of a Study Group composed of A. Alexandris, A. Potamianou, S. Beratis, Hartocollis, and P. Sakellaropoulos. However, pressure remained on the group to have an adequate number of training analysts to become a Provisional Society.
