Curriculum Vitae

SAHIKA YÜK­SEL, MD

Tesvikiye,  Poyracik Sok, No 28, K 1, D 7,  Istanbul Turkey
Pho­ne:  +90212  2723434
E-mail : sy4650@gmail.com

Professional Training and Qualifications

1964: graduated from Istanbul Kiz Lisesi

1971: MD from Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul University

1972-1976: Internship in Psychiatry and Neurology, Residency in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Istanbul

1978-1980: Behavioural Psychotherapy Training in London Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Experimental Psychopathology

1979: Institute of Group Analysis in London

1982: Promoted to Associate Professor in Psychiatry.

1983: Lecturer in Dicle University, Medical Faculty in Diyarbakır

1984: Research Assistant Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Experimental Psychopathology, London.

1984: Women Therapy Center

1989: Promoted to Professor in Psychiatry

1989-2013: Director of Unit on Psychotherapy and Psychonerosis in Psychiatry Outpatient Department, Medical School, University of Istanbul

1994-2013: Director of Istanbul Psychosocial Trauma Program

1998-2002: Chairperson of Psychiatry Department, Medical School, University of Istanbul

Areas of clinical specialization, teaching, research and service:

  • Post-traumatic problems, particularly in women exposed to psychological, physical and sexual violence at home and detention;
  • Work with NGO’s on rehabilitation centers for torture victims and shelters for women exposed to sexual and physical violence; Treatment and forensic evaluation of torture survivors;
  • Mass violence after bombing, suicide attacks and after  large scale accidents (Preparation, evaluation and psychologic first aid intervention)
  • Conseling, and affirmative therapy with LGBT people and their families; Transgender people, individually and in group settings evaluation, clinical treatment and  forensic reports. Set up first transsexual service inTurkey according Standart of Care (SOC); Established therapist guided transgender groups in 1987 until 2013. Group and individual based work with adolescent TG’s and families. (created first transsexual service for teaching and clinical work in Turkey)

1999-2002 Chairperson of  a special treatment and follow-up project in the most underserved earthquake region, Adapazari.

2003-2007 President of Psychiatric Association of Turkey

Member of WPATH ICD-11 Consensus Committee  Transgender and Transsexual- Related Diagnoses

Professional Society Memberships

  • Founder and consultant of Purple Roof Foundation for Women’s Shelter (independent feminist NGO)
  • Founder of TIHV (Turkish Human Rights Foundation) (independent torture rehabilitation NGO) and 1990-1994 representative of Istanbul Branch of TIHV
  • Turkish Medical Association, Istanbul Branch Disaster Group
  • President of Psychiatric Association of Turkey  (PAT)
  • PAT Coordinator  of Disaster and Mental Health Task Group (2000-2004)
  • PAT Coordinator of  Women and Mental Health Task Group
  • Founder of CETAD (Association of Education, and Treatment of Sexual Issues) Board member since 1998 Board Member
  • Member of British Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy Association
  • European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS): Founder and Board Member (between 1992-2001)
  • International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS):Board Member (2001 -2004)
  • Coordinator of ISTSS SIG Social Policy and Human Rights (2003-2008)
  • 1995-2001: Co-editor in “Turkish Archieves of Neuropsychiatry”
  • Editorial Board of Journal of Transgenderism since 1997,
  • Editorial Board of Turkish several profesional journals
  • Exacutive Committee Member of Turkish Psychiatric Association (2003-2005)
  • President of Turkish Psychiatric Association (2005-2007)
  • Cooridinator of  Violence against Women  Task Force (2012-2015)
  • Coordinator of PAT SIG Women Mental Health (2010-2015)
  • Coordinator of PAT  Mass Violoence intervention Task Force   (since 2011)
  • Member of  Advisory Committee  KAOS-GL
  • Member of International Academia of Sex Research since 2004
  • Member of Eoropean Professional Association of  Transgender Health (EPATH)

Organized and served on Scientific Committees of Various Conferences in Turkey and Europe

  • President of 6th European Congress of Traumatic Stress (6ECOTS)- Istanbul  (1999)
  • Secretary of Satellite Symposium. IV. Spring Symposium Turkish Psychiatric Association and European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, Antalya (26th April 2000)
  • President of National Congress of Turkish Psychiatry Istanbul (2001)
  • Scientific Committee member of 8th European Congress of Traumatic Stress- Berlin  (2003)
  • Secretary: The III. Psychological Trauma Meeting, Psychological Health -after Natural Disasters; Prevention, Treatment ve Organization in Istanbul (2004)
  • President The 6th National Congress of Sexuality and Sexual Treatment in Istanbul (2006)
  • President The IV. Psychological Trauma Meeting, Psychological Health -after Natural Disasters; Prevention, Treatment ve Organization in Istanbul (2005)
  • President  of  The V. Psychological Trauma Meeting, Psychological Health -after Natural Disasters; Prevention, Treatment ve Organization in Istanbul (2007)
  • President of  The V. Psychological Trauma Meeting,  Trauma of Daily Life in Istanbul (2009)
  • President  of The VI. Psychological Trauma Meeting,  Community Trauma Istanbul (2012)
  • Scientific Committee member of Eoropean Professional Association of  Transgender Health  (EPATH) 2015, 2017, 2019