Nikos Sideris


Nikos Sideris, is a Greek psychiatrist, translator, poet and writer.

Biography

Sideris studied medicine at the University of Athens. He then settled in Paris for his postgraduate studies. He is a PhD of Panteion University Psychology Department and teaching psychoanalyst, member of the Strasbourg School of Psychoanalysis and the European Federation of Psychoanalysis and [Psychoanalytic School of Strasburg]. He works as a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and family therapist in Athens.
His book "Children do not need psychologists. They need parents!" became a non-fiction best-seller in Greece.

Works

Poetry

  • Gko, 1983
  • Circumnavigation or Overturn of Names, 1990
  • Tender Oarsman, 2000
  • The Art of the Grain, 2011

    Fiction

  • Love Song, 1998
  • The Ballad of Dust, 2003
  • A Song for Orpheus, 2011

    Non-fiction

  • Inner Bilingualism, 1995
  • And yet they are talking – Adolescent discourse , 1999
  • Architecture and Psychoanalysis – Fantasy and Construction, 2006
  • Children do not need psychologists. They need parents!, 2009
  • As they have been told and heard –Secrets and truths from the psychoanalyst’s couch, 2008
  • Freud crypto-red? - History, theory, fantasy, 2009
  • You are not the only one playing. There are also others!, 2010
  • Eroticism in Art – Pictorial Fantasies, 2010
  • Talking with the child about the crisis, 2013
  • The Devil's Gospel — Political Psychology of the Crisis, 2014
  • Bullying: it can be beaten! A strategy for parents, teachers, children and everybody else, 2016
  • Loss - Mourning - Depression: Passion and Redemption, 2020

    Translations into Greek

  • Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power, 1978
  • Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis: Technique, 1981
  • Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis: Theory of character formation, 1981
  • Wilhelm Reich, People in Trouble, 1988
  • Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis: From psychoanalysis to orgone biophysics, 1990
  • Jean Claude Bringuier, Conversations with Jean Piaget, 1999

    Works written in English

  • John Shannon Hendrix and Lorens Holm, Architecture and the Unconscious, Ashgate, Oxford 2016. Chapter entitled: Architecture and the Unconscious: Fantasy, Construction, and the Dual Spatiality.

    Works translated into English

  • Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Fantasy and Construction, 2013, Kindle Edition, ASIN: B00FWPBWZ0

    Works translated into Albanian

  • ''Fëmijët nuk duan psikolog, Duan prindër!''