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The Committee on the Status of Female Researchers and Researchers with Small Children of the Hungarian Young Academy will organise a webinar on the topic of mental well-being and  the impostor syndrome, open to the public, on 22 November 2023, from 12:30 to 14:00, titled “The impostor experience and complex: the unified sense of self and self-image and the uncertainty of identity stability”. Anett Felházi, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, will present the phenomenon of impostor syndrome, its theoretical and practical background, its recognition, treatment and methods of recovery. After the presentation, the specialist will take questions from the audience. The programme will be moderated by Dr Bernadette Kun and Dr Karolina Eszter Kovács, psychologists and HYA members.

Location:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84927444976?pwd=Dw8eLqTQGiVv9TpoVmnMHYwaiNj3d9.1

Invited lecturer:

Anett Felházi clinical psychologist and psychotherapist

Moderators:

Dr Bernadette Kun, psychologist, head of department, associate professor (ELTE Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Addictology)

Dr Karolina Eszter Kovács (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology, Department of Counselling and Developmental and Educational Psychology)

The Hungarian Young Academy places a strong emphasis on the role of mental health in the lives of researchers. We believe it is important to talk about the stress, difficulties, burnout, work addiction and the often expected weekend and evening overtime experienced by researchers throughout their career. Our aim is to work together to find solutions that will enable academics at all levels of scientific research, from PhD students to professors, to practice their profession in a healthy working environment.

In October 2021, in the first part of the HYA webinar series on research careers, Dr. Gábor Kismihók, head of the Researcher Mental Health Observatory COST Action gave a talk focusing on work-life balance and the mental health and well-being of researchers. The second chapter of the series (held last year) featured Dr Bernadette Kun, psychologist, and Dr Mária Hoyer,  clinical psychologist and addictology specialist, who talked about the theoretical and practical background of work addiction and burnout, and the possibilities of diagnosis and treatment.

The topic explored by the third part of the series held in November 2023 was the impostor syndrome, where Anett Felházi, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist spoke about the theoretical and practical aspects of the problem.

Our upcoming programme in November will focus on the impostor syndrome. Our invited lecturer will be Anett Felházi, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with theoretical and practical experience in the field, who works as a training psychoanalyst and supervisor. She is a member of the International and the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association, and serves as secretary of the latter. For twenty years, her papers have appeared in the scientific journals Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and she has presented papers with great success at numerous conferences. She is a regular lecturer in the Master’s programme in Clinical and Health Psychology at ELTE Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology. The topics of her lectures are mostly drawn from her own therapeutic practice. Her main areas of interest include pathologies around early trauma, narcissistic and borderline problems. She has also devoted a lot of time to the nature of aggression and destructiveness, and to the study of sadomasochistic disorders. In addition to the impostor syndrome, she has also studied in depth the phenomena of greed and stinginess. We believe that discussing the impostor syndrome has particular relevance in the context of research careers, especially for beginners and early career researchers. The programme also offers an excellent opportunity for non-psychologist researchers to gain reliable information from experts on both theoretical and practical aspects of the problem. After Anett Felházi’s lecture, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions, so that further experience and knowledge can be gained. The webinar and the discussion will be moderated by Dr Bernadette Kun and Dr Karolina Eszter Kovács, both psychologists from the HYA membership.

All are welcome, but please note that the language of the webinar will be Hungarian.