Hakkında About

Professor Ersin Hatice Karslıoğlu graduated from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine in 1996. After completing her compulsory public service, she began residency training in psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine in 2001. She completed her residency in 2006 and qualified as a specialist in psychiatry. That same year, she joined the Psychiatry Clinic at Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital.

Between 2007 and 2008, she spent one year conducting research on sleep at the Wisconsin Sleep Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2015, she was appointed to the position of chief assistant (başasistan) in the Psychiatry Clinic at Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital. After successfully passing the Associate Professorship Examination administered by the Inter-Universities Council, she attained the academic title of associate professor in 2017.

Following her retirement from public service in 2024, she was appointed as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Atılım University School of Medicine and concurrently joined Boylam Psychiatric Hospital as a psychiatrist. She worked for more than two years in the hospital’s AMATEM unit for the treatment of alcohol and substance use disorders.

During her residency, she received group supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from Professor Leyla Zileli, theoretical training in cognitive behavioral therapy from Professor Hakan Türkçapar, and training in Brief Emergency Psychotherapy (BEP) from Professor Yıldırım B. Doğan. She also continued her training and clinical work in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with Dr. Ülkü Gürışık.

Under the direction of Professor Cem Kaptanoğlu, she completed the Psychiatric Association of Türkiye’s Training-of-Trainers Program in Supportive Psychotherapy and qualified as a trainer in supportive psychotherapy. She continues to serve as a trainer in supportive psychotherapy courses organized by the Psychiatric Association of Türkiye.

While working at Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital, she was responsible for the Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders Unit and the Community Mental Health Center. She also conducted psycho-oncology research involving patients with cancer and their caregivers.

Her principal clinical and academic interests include schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, as well as psychodynamic and supportive psychotherapies. Her scholarly output includes research articles published in national and international journals, conference presentations, and book chapters, with a particular emphasis on schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

She has been in private practice since July 2026.