Presentation of the famous psychotherapist and writer Madlen Algafari

Presentation of the famous psychotherapist and writer
Madlen Algafari
with a glass of wine

Biography:

Madlen Algafari is a Bulgarian psychotherapist, writer, translator and producer. She graduated from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”, speciality: Psychology and next SU “St. Kliment Ohridski” jointly with The National Academy for Theatre & Film Arts “Krustyo Sarafov” – speciality: Drama and Puppet Theatre Directing.

Her biography and experience are very varied. Below are only a few of her achievements:

– Advisor for Bulgaria of the International Academy of Exchange and Development of Culture and Science, Lugano, Switzerland.
– President of the Bulgarian Neoreichian Society (Society of the psychotherapists practicing Neoreichian analytical psychotherapy).
– Supervisor and lecturer in analytical psychotherapy, psychoanthropology, sexotherapy, chromotherapy, psychodiagnostics, body language, dance therapy and bioenergetic massage at the Training Institute of Body Psychotherapy, successor of the International Academy of Exchange and Development of Culture and Science, Lugano, Switzerland and the Institute of Psychology and Psychotherapy at the West Deutsche Academy, Düsseldorf – Mühlheim, Germany.
– Member of the Artistic Council of the Bulgarian National Television.
– Host of the rubric “Psychotherapy” of the programme “Na kafe” (Meeting for coffee) in Nova Television and psychological rubrics in the magazines “Club M”, “Za men” (For me), “24 chasa” (24 hours) newspaper, “Za zhenata” (For the woman) magazine, etc.
– Psychologist for the first season of the television programme “Extreme Makeover” on Nova Television.

Among her published books are:

– I Have No Rest – poetry and psychology
– I Have Faith – psychotherapy through poetry and prose
– We all can fly – description of therapeutic cases, accompanied with a CD Rom –(own poems, fairy-tales, songs – psychotherapy in rhymes and sounds from the nature) intended for people with impaired vision.
– Fairytales for Grown-Up Children – 36 therapeutic fairy tales with deep archetypical messages at the dawn of the spiritual revolution.
– Hunger for True Things. The book is comprised of 3 sections – 1. poetry; 2. short answers to questions in 3 areas (children-parents, men-women, health-sickness); 3. meditations towards contact with the inner healer, inner wisdom, forgiveness, conversation with the body, and the link between people and god. The third part of the book “Hunger for True Things” is in both audio and written form. The CD contains the narrative of the meditations with the voice of the author on a background of natural sounds.

Main activities:

– Psychosomatic problems. Analytical psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioural, psychodrama, art-therapy etc.
– Individual and group psychotherapy: existential problems, conflicts in couples, psychodiagnostics, neuroses, obsessions, phobias, addictions, eating disorders, school for parents, etc.
– Translation of psychological literature

Languages: Bulgarian, French, Italian, Russian, English