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Michael Šebek
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Michael Šebek, Ph.D. CSc. is a training and supervising analyst of the Czech Psychoanalytical Society (IPA). Elected twice as President, he is a former director the Society’s Psychoanalytic Institute and Assistant Professor in Medical Psychology at Charles University, Prague. He served on the international editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, as secretary for Europe of the IPA, and in various roles for the Han Groen Prakken Training Institute for Eastern Europe. A former Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Centre he has moderated Haydee Faimberg's in Forum on Clinical Issues as well Comparative Clinical Method workshops. Appointed as a visitor on the European Exchange Visiting Program (EVP and EVP2), he has also advised on psychoanalytic training in various societies including in Moscow. Trained as a psychoanalyst under a communist regime, he has published in English, German, French, Polish, Russian and Czech on the totalitarian mind, totalitarian objects, death drive, and relations between psychic and external realities as well as on psychosomatic issues.