Editor-in-Chief

BEÁTA DÁVID (2022-     )

Sociologist; Professor;
Director of the Insitute of Mental Health, Semmelweis University (Hungary) 

Background

I have been a professor and the director of the Institute of Mental Health at Semmelweis University since 2013. I am the coordinator of the sociological doctorate program of Mental Health Sciences and the vice-dean of Scientific and Educational Affairs at the Faculty of Health and Public Services of Semmelweis University. I am a research chair at the Centre for Social Sciences, HUN-REN. Since 2011, I serve as the president of HUNNET, Hungarian Network for Social Network Analysis, and the chair of Home Start Hungary Trustee Board since 2016. I am the scientific and ethical board member of the Cohort '18 - Growing Up in Hungary research of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, and member of the habilitation committee of ELTE TáTK. I hold an MA Degree in Sociology and in English Language and Literature, and graduated at Eotvos Lorand University in 1992. My research interests include social network analysis, ego and closed networks, ethnicity networks as well as family and health sociology, social capital, sociology of health and family. I wrote several books and papers, so far three of these latter published in Social Networks, one of the most prestigious journals in social network analysis.

Role at the European Journal of Mental Health

I served on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Mental Health since my directorship at the Institute. From 2022, I have been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

Purpose

I am determined that the European Journal of Mental Health will be scored higher and reach an IF in a few years. To achieve this goal, I have applied for all kinds of support; in 2022 for the first time I succeeded in acquiring a significant subsidy from Semmelweis University to renew the journal.  I believe in teamwork, and I try to encourage it through my editorial decisions to promote the development of the journal.

Research interests

  • social network analysis
  • the sociology of family
  • interpersonal relationships

 

Previous Editors-in-Chief

JOZEF CORVELEYN (2015-2023)

Clinical psychologist; Professor Emeritus;
KU Leuven, University of Leuven (Belgium)  

Areas of Research

  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology of religion
  • psychological factors in situations of extreme vulnerability (poverty, family violence, structural violence)

Professional Career

  • PhD in psychology (KU Leuven, 1983)
  • Emeritus professor of clinical psychology (psychoanalysis) and psychology of religion at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and retired professor of psychology of religion at the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • Dr. hon. c. at Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) and honorary professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Lima, Peru)

 

NORBERT METTE (2006-2014)

Professor of Religious Pedagogy and Practical Theology
Dortmund University, Institute of Catholic Theology (Germany)
Honorary Doctor of Fribourg University (Switzerland)

Areas of Research

  • methodology of practical theology
  • pastoral theology
  • religious pedagogy
  • social pastoral studies

Professional Public Activity

  • fellow of the European Society for Catholic Theology
  • member of the Workshop for Religious Pedagogy and Catechesis
  • member of the Conference of German-Speaking Pastoral Theologians
  • fellow of the International Academy of Practical Theology
  • since 2002, in cooperation with the Semmelweis University Institute of Mental Health, Budapest

 

Honorary Editors-in-Chief

 

JOZEF CORVELEYN

Clinical psychologist; Professor Emeritus;
KU Leuven, University of Leuven (Belgium)  

Areas of Research

  • psychoanalysis
  • psychology of religion
  • psychological factors in situations of extreme vulnerability (poverty, family violence, structural violence)

Professional Career

  • PhD in psychology (KU Leuven, 1983)
  • Emeritus professor of clinical psychology (psychoanalysis) and psychology of religion at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and retired professor of psychology of religion at the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • Dr. hon. c. at Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) and honorary professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Lima, Peru)

 

TEODÓRA TOMCSÁNYI 

Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist; Professor Emerita
Semmelweis University, Institute of Mental Health, Budapest (Hungary)

Areas of Research

  • mental health and historical past (dictatorship)
  • intercultural shame and guilt research
  • efficiency of adult education
  • authority research
  • spirituality and society

Professional Public Activity

  • organizer of the first official ‘western’ psychotherapy training (psychodrama training) before the political changes (1981)
  • developer and initiator (1987) of interdisciplinary postgraduate mental health education
  • initiator and developer of the concept of a specialized qualifying program in ecumenical spiritual counseling integrated into a university curriculum (from 1998)
  • founding member and first president, and currently member, of the Hungarian Psychodrama Association
  • formerly deputy secretary, and currently member, of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association
  • former president of the Education Committee of the National Chamber of Hungarian Family Assistants
  • founding member and president of the Hungarian Society for Pastoral Psychology
  • member, trainer and supervisor of international and Hungarian psychotherapy associations (group analysis, psychodrama, psychoanalysis, family therapy)
  • editor of six book series