2022 – 2025.
BEÁTA PETHESNÉ DÁVID
sociologist,
professor,
director of Insitute of Mental Health, Semmelweis University (Hungary)
Areas of Research
- social network analysis (personal and institutional)
- contact diary method
- sociology of family
- sociology of health
2015 – 2023.
JOZEF CORVELEYN
clinical psychologist,
professor emeritus,
KU Leuven, University of Leuven (Belgium)
Areas of Research
- psychoanalysis
- psychology of religion
- psychological factors in situations of extreme vulnerability (poverty, family violence, structural violence)
Professional Career
- PhD in psychology (KU Leuven, 1983)
- Emeritus professor of clinical psychology (psychoanalysis) and psychology of religion at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and retired professor of psychology of religion at the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Dr. hon. c. at Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) and honorary professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Lima, Peru)
2006 – 2014.
Editor-in-Chief Norbert Mette
Professor of Religious Pedagogy
and Practical Theology
Dortmund University,
Institute of Catholic Theology (Germany)
Honorary Doctor of Fribourg University (Switzerland)
Areas of Research
- methodology of practical theology
- pastoral theology
- religious pedagogy
- social pastoral studies
Professional Public Activity
- fellow of the European Society for Catholic Theology
- member of the Workshop for Religious Pedagogy and Catechesis
- member of the Conference of German-Speaking Pastoral Theologians
- fellow of the International Academy of Practical Theology
- since 2002, cooperation with the Semmelweis University Institute of Mental Health, Budapest
Honorary Editors-in-chief
Editor-in-Chief JOZEF CORVELEYN
clinical psychologist,
professor emeritus,
KU Leuven, University of Leuven (Belgium)
Areas of Research
- psychoanalysis
- psychology of religion
- psychological factors in situations of extreme vulnerability (poverty, family violence, structural violence)
Professional Career
- PhD in psychology (KU Leuven, 1983)
- Emeritus professor of clinical psychology (psychoanalysis) and psychology of religion at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and retired professor of psychology of religion at the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Dr. hon. c. at Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) and honorary professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Lima, Peru)
Editor-in-Chief Teodóra Tomcsányi
clinical psychologist,
psychotherapist,
professor emerita
Semmelweis University, Institute of Mental Health, Budapest (Hungary)
Areas of Research
- mental health and historical past (dictatorship)
- intercultural shame and guilt research
- efficiency of adult education
- authority research
- spirituality and society
Professional Public Activity
- organiser of the first official ‘western’ psychotherapy training (psychodrama training) before the political changes (1981)
- developer and initiator (1987) of interdisciplinary postgraduate mental health education
- initiator and developer of the concept of a specialised qualifying program in ecumenical spiritual counselling integrated into a university curriculum (from 1998)
- founding member and first president, and currently member, of the Hungarian Psychodrama Association
- formerly deputy secretary, and currently member, of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association
- former president of the Education Committee of the National Chamber of Hungarian Family Assistants
- founding member and president of the Hungarian Society for Pastoral Psychology
- member, trainer and supervisor of international and Hungarian psychotherapy associations (group analysis, psychodrama, psychoanalysis, family therapy)
- editor of six book series