Publications and Presentations

Levi, S. Y. “Hayatta kalma mücadelesinde insan olmak” (Being human in the struggle for survival). Zoom Conference in Turkish on Covid-19 organized by Hemenis - Alptekin, M., 17 May 2020.

Levi, S. Y. “Freud’s controversial contribution in his psycho-sexual theory: Oedipus Complex”.  Paper presented at Thinking About Psychoanalysis Today – BPA Intro Course, Feb 2020, London/UK.

Levi, S. Y. “I feel like a wrong production; I shouldn’t have been born: A Girl from a Patriarchal Culture who Feels Ashamed of her Femininity”. Paper presented at the IPA conference in London on Feminine, July 2019, London/UK.

Levi, S. Y. “Working Psychoanalytically with Female to Male Transsexual Adult:

Dramatic Repudiation of Being a Woman”. Paper presented at an EPF Panel on Transsexualism, April 2019, Madrid/Spain.

Levi, S. Y. “Finding reason to stay in this world when one can leave it: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with self harming and severely suicidal teenager”.  Presented paper in Psychoanalytic Forum BPF Nov 2018, London/UK.

Levi, S. (2017) "Measuring change in psychotherapeutic work with with a traumatised child on the autistic spectrum". Journal of Child Psychotherapy, Published on line 31 Jul 2017

Levi, S. "Finding reason to stay in this world when one can leave it:

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Miss C". Presented paper in ACP Annual Conference, Bath, June 2015.

Levi, S. Y. “Psychosocial enrichment project for Turkish speaking disadvantaged parents and their children living in Enfield / London”. Presented paper in Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) UK Chapter, 12- 14 September 2013.

Levi, S. “The use of the diagnostic profile with an emotionally neglected and trauma induced shut down case”.  Presented paper in Anna Freud Centre’s Colloquium 2013 on Diagnostic Profile in a parallel workshop.

Levi, S. “‘Silent Scream’: work with a traumatised immigrant mother and her infant with a severe neurological disorder”. In N.J. Malberg & J. Raphael- Leff (ed.). The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development – Evolution of Theory and Practice Over the Decades. Karnac, London, 2011.

Levi, S. "Projective Methods and Psychoanalytic View of Personality". Presented paper in Freud Forum – British Association of Psychotherapists, London, June 2011.   

Levi, S. “The psychological effects of circumcision on Muslim boys”.  Presented paper in ACP Annual Conference, London, June 2010.

Levi, S. “The role of psychological testing in demonstrating the value of psychotherapy with traumatised children on the autistic spectrum”.  Presented paper in ACP Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, June 2009.

Levi, S. “Intensive psychotherapy with an adolescent boy who had a disorganized attachment pattern”.  Presented as a clinical case at 18th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (ICAPAP), 2008, Istanbul.

Levi, S. “”Silent Scream” Psychological intervention with a traumatised, migrant mother and an infant with severe neurological disorder”. Presented paper in a symposia titled: “Families in crisis in a word of migration: Aspects of inner- familiar attachment and approaches to intercultural families in diagnosis and therapy” at 18th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (ICAPAP), 2008, Istanbul.

Levi, S. “”Silent Scream” Psychological intervention with a traumatised, migrant mother and an infant with severe neurological disorder”. Presented paper in a Migration and Identities Conference, German – Turkish cooperation, Istanbul, Bogazici University, 2007.

Levi, S. “Psychoanalytic understandings in learning disabilities”.  Presented paper in an Enfield Primary Care Trust, Mental Health Unit, September 2006.

Laor, N., Levi, S. & Wolmer, L. “Relief programs in communities affected by disaster: Theory, implementation principles and a case study”.  In E. Caffo (ed.), Emergenza nell’infenzia e nell’adolescenza – Interventi psicoterapeitici e di communita, Mc Graw- Hill, Italy, 2004.

Ilkbahar is the surname acquired during my first marriage.

Ilkbahar, S. Y. (in Press) “Psychological analysis of begging”.  Shalom weekly newspaper, Istanbul

Ilkbahar, S. Y. & Tuzun, S. “Creativity”.  Lifelong Education.  May- June 1993, Istanbul:Culture College.

Ilkbahar, S. Y. “Kinetic- Family- Drawings: A construct validity with a Turkish sample”.  Presented paper in National Psychology Congress, 1992, Ankara.

Ilkbahar, S. Y. “Phobias”.  Lifelong Education.  July- August 1992, p.11- 16, Istanbul: Culture College.

Ilkbahar, S. Y. (in Press) “Coping with stress”.  Bizim Dunyamiz, Alarko, Istanbul.

Ilkbahar, S. Y. (in Press)  “Ways of dealing with excessive behaviours”.  Business World, Istanbul.