Zsolt Unoka

Prof. Dr. Unoka Zsolt habil., PhD — Semmelweis University, Hungary. Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, specialist in psychiatric rehabilitation, schema therapist, trainer and supervisor, and university professor.

Positions

  • Chief physician, Psychotherapy Department, Semmelweis University Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
  • University professor; head of the Psychotherapy Committee at Semmelweis University.
  • Executive Board member of the Hungarian Association for Behavioral, Cognitive, and Schema Therapy (VIKOTE) and chair of its Academic Committee.

Background

Degrees in general medicine from Semmelweis University and in philosophy from Eötvös Loránd University. Board certification in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychiatric rehabilitation at Semmelweis’s Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; VIKOTE-certified training therapist.

Clinical and research focus

Clinical work spans cognitive-behavioral, schema therapy, and psychodynamic approaches. Research covers psychotherapeutic processes, early maladaptive schemas, attachment, social cognition, and emotion regulation disorders in mental disorders. He also teaches and supervises PhD students.

Role in this ecosystem

Principal investigator on the funded VSMT avatar-therapy grant (NKFIH ADVANCED_25, entry 153443) — the clinical anchor into which Speech Gap would be integrated as an exploratory longitudinal sub-study. → Semmelweis / VIKOTE

Workshop role

Talk: “Avatars in schematherapies.” Tier 2. → INNOFAIR workshop programme

Audience draw for the workshop is expected in part from his approximately 20,000-follower Facebook audience.

Semmelweis / VIKOTE · Speech Gap · Avatar therapy · Borderline personality disorder · INNOFAIR workshop programme