Editors-in-chief – A history

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

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 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

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