Mehmet Zihni Sungur

• Professor of Psychiatry, Marmara University
• CEO at President of the Turkish Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies

The global COVID-19 pandemic has exerted profound physical and psychological tolls on healthcare professionals, underscoring the urgent need for their mental health support. The objectives of this research are twofold: first, to develop an e-psychological support program based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy tailored specifically for healthcare pro...

Abstract CLP project aim: The Common Language for Psychotherapy (CLP) project aims to achieve an International “A to Z” dictionary of psychotherapy procedures, from any orientation. Each entry is defined operationally, free of theoretical terms as much as possible, in order to further the development of psychotherapy into a science. The CLP project...

Résumé Le Professeur Mehmet Sungur, président de la Fédération européenne de sexologie (EFS) a accordé à Alain Giami une interview dans laquelle il développe son parcours professionnel en médecine et en psychiatrie, son intérêt pour les approches cognitivo-comportementales et leur application au champ de la sexualité et des relations de couple. Il...

Professor Mehmet Sungur, president of the European Federation of Sexology (EFS) accorded Alain Giami an interview in which he discusses his professional career in medicine and psychiatry, his interest in cognitive-behavioral approaches and their application to the field of sexuality and couple relationships. Finally, he explains his project for the...

A satisfactory sexual relationship cannot be warranted without a good general relationship and requires appropriate physiological sexual responses, healthy psychological states of each partner, and both partners to be responsive to each other’s needs. For these reasons, sexual satisfaction requires the well-being of both the relationship and each p...

AMAÇ: Sağlık çalışanları COVID-19 salgını sırasında hem salgına bağlı olarak hem de COVID hastalarına profesyonel destek sırasında ikincil travmatik strese bağlı olarak büyük ölçüde stres yaşamaktadırlar. Bu amaçla proje kapsamında online terapi programı geliştirilmesi planlanmış ve sağlık çalışanlarının değerlendirildiği bu ön çalışmada COVID-19 s...

Negative body image appraisals may effect the sexual functions, avoidance, and level of finding oneself sexually attractive. The aim of the study is to assess the levels of sexual dysfunction and sexual satisfaction in patients with psoriasis and the effect of the body image appraisal on sexual functions and satisfaction. In all, 216 individuals we...

ÖZET AMAÇ: Bu çalışmada şizofreni hastalarının bakım vericile-riyle olan bağlanma örüntülerinin ve bakım verici duygu ifadesinin hastaların oksidatif stres düzeyleri ile ilişkisinin araştırılması amaçlanmıştır. GEREÇ VE YÖNTEM: Çalışmaya, Marmara Üniversitesi Hastanesi Psikiyatri polikliniğine başvuran 20 şizofreni hastası ve annesi ile 21 sağlıkl...

ÖZET AMAÇ: Bu çalışmada şizofreni hastalarının bakım vericile-riyle olan bağlanma örüntülerinin ve bakım verici duygu ifadesinin hastaların oksidatif stres düzeyleri ile ilişkisinin araştırılması amaçlanmıştır. GEREÇ VE YÖNTEM: Çalışmaya, Marmara Üniversitesi Hastanesi Psikiyatri polikliniğine başvuran 20 şizofreni hastası ve annesi ile 21 sağlıkl...

AMAÇ: Bu çalışmada şizofreni hastalarının bakım vericileriyle olan bağlanma örüntülerinin ve bakım verici duygu ifadesinin hastaların oksidatif stres düzeyleri ile ilişkisinin araştırılması amaçlanmıştır.GEREÇ VE YÖNTEM: Çalışmaya, Marmara Üniversitesi Hastanesi Psikiyatri polikliniğine başvuran 20 şizofreni hastası ve annesi ile 21 sağlıklı kontro...

We aimed to investigate the similarities and differences between patients with OCD and PD, and healthy control subjects (NPC) on their metacognitive beliefs, emotional schemas, and cognitive flexibility. We hypothesized that the clinical groups would score higher than the NPC group on their dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs and negative beliefs a...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of Cognitive Attentional Syndrome-1 (CAS-1) questionnaire. Methods: 221 participants were included in the study who do not meet any psychiatric diagnosis. Participants were applied SCID I and II and filled CAS-1 scale, Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire-30 (MC...

OBJECTIVE: The Sexual Complaints Screener for Women (SCS-W) is a brief, practical and up-to-date scale which assesses sexual problems parallel with the current diagnostic manuals. The SCS-W consists of 10 questions which assess a variety of sexual dysfunctions and potential distress experienced at the time of and the last six months leading to the...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity and reliability parameters of the Turkish version of the Sexual Complaints Screener for Men (SCS-M) which is a promising brief measure to assess sexual problems in daily practice. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted online. Data was collected through an online validated and content specific questionnai...

Previous research has increased understanding of the neurobiological basis of emotional regulation. However, less is known concerning the unconscious processing of affective information. Three experiments were performed to investigate the extent to which complex affective stimuli can be processed outside of consciousness and demonstrate possible me...

Today, obesity is a public health problem with significant negative effects on mortality and morbidity rates in developing countries, and impact on all levels of the society. In recent years cognitive behavioral therapy approach has been considered as an important part of the obesity treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy for obesity includes sect...

Religion is an important cultural factor that may have a significant impact on the presentation of mental health problems and sexual dysfunction. Although there is increasing empirical evidence of the relationship between religion, sexual dysfunction, and sex therapy, it is difficult to predict how these factors influence one another among Islamic...

According to clinical trials literature, every person with a schizophrenic disorder should be provided with the combination of optimal dose antipsychotics, strategies to educate himself and his carers to cope more efficiently with environmental stresses, cognitive-behavioural strategies to enhance work and social goals and reducing residual symptom...

According to clinical trials literature, every person with a schizophrenic disorder should be provided with the combination of optimal dose antipsychotics, strategies to educate himself and his carers to cope more efficiently with environmental stresses, cognitive-behavioural strategies to enhance work and social goals and reducing residual symptom...

The path to achieving the knowledge and skills necessary to become a competent coach to help couple and relationship problems is diverse. A good coach is expected to gather enough data to make a good conceptualization of the case in order to understand and pinpoint the interactional patterns of the couple relationship that are dysfunctional and req...

Objective: The Cognitive Assessment Interview (CAI) is an interview-based scale developed to assess cognitive functioning of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. It is scored by a clinician according to patient and informant interview. This study aimed to determine the reliability and validity of the CAI-Turkish Version (CAI-TR). Methods: The Cog...

Aim. To investigate sociotropic-autonomic personality characteristics and their clinical implications in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Methods. The study included 68 consecutive patients who were either being followed up on an outpatient basis or presented for the first time to the psychiatric clinics of Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for...

Aim. To investigate sociotropic-autonomic personality characteristics and their clinical implications in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Methods. The study included 68 consecutive patients who were either being followed up on an outpatient basis or presented for the first time to the psychiatric clinics of Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital f...

The first EFS/ESSM qualification exam for psycho-sexologists was held in Istanbul on January 28, 2014. Though the exam was arranged under the auspices of the EFS and the ESSM, psychologists of all nationalities, including countries outside the EU, had the opportunity to take it. The duration of the exam was 3 hours and included 100 multiple choice...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate coping strategies suggested to be a determinant of suicide attempt and to compare them with coping strategies of healthy volunteers. Methods: This study was conducted on 50 patients who had suicide attempts within the past two months and 52 healthy volunteers who did not have any suicide att...

Cognitive behavioral therapy is still one of the most important treatment modalities in social anxiety disorder with a high level of evidence. However, some patients do not fully benefit from these therapies and this fact leads to ongoing search for new approaches. This paper reviews use of cognitive behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder st...

Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the reliability and validity of the Turkish adaptations of the Positive Beliefs about Rumination Scale (PBRS) and the Negative Beliefs about Rumination Scale (NBRS) in clinical and non-clinical samples. Method: While the non-clinical sample of the study consisted of 455 participants, the clinical sample w...

Objective: Despite its well established efficacy for various psychological problems, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is surrounded by numerous false beliefs and myths. Some of these myths are not only common in clients, but are also shared by clinicians working in the area of psychiatry. Therefore, this study primarily aimed to detect the myths...

The diagnostic criteria of sexual dysfunctions (SDs) are paramount for the development of sexual medicine as reliable diagnoses are essential to guide treatment plans. Prior Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) classifications based definitions of SD mostly on expert opinions and included imprecise terms. The validity of diag...

The relationship between dysfunctional attitudes, rumination response styles and depression Objective: In our study we aimed to investigate the relationship between rumination response styles, dysfunctional attitudes and depression. Methods: 60 patients diagnosed with depression according to the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria in the Bakirkoy Trainin...

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Researches ABSTRACT Sexual function and satisfaction of women with vaginismus Objective: Vaginismus is one of the sexual dysfunctions that affects couples' sexual life. There is a common opinion that women with vaginismus have a satisfied sexual life even there is no vaginal entry. But contrary to this opinion, several studies reported that sexual...

Several authors have suggested that not only appraisal of significance of external events and signals from the body, but also appraisal of the personal significance of thoughts are important, and emphasized the conceptual limitations of the schema approach in cognitive model and developed the integrative information processing model of emotional di...

Despite its short history, internet has become an indispensible part of daily life. It has been observed that individuals, who increasingly spend most of their time in the virtual world, lose control of their habit and experience dysfunctionalities in their professional, social and private lives. Today this fact emerges as a widely discussed topic....

Amaç: Oksidatif stres ile antioksidan savunma mekanizmaları arasındaki denge ve bu dengenin bozulmasının birçok hastalığın gelişimi ve prognozunda önemli bir rolü olduğu düşüncesi gün geçtikçe daha fazla kabul görmektedir. Bu çalışmada, yaşadıkları yüksek stresin getirdiği oksidatif hasar baz alınarak şizofreni hastaları üzerinden bu hasara bağlı o...

Bacground: This study aimed the relationship between some demographic and clinical characteristics of suicide attempt with hopelessness, distressing life events prior to the attempt in individuals who attempted suicide and compares the outcomes with healthy volunteers with respect to several sociodemographic variables. Results: Twenty seven patient...

ZET Amaç: Obsesif kompulsif bozukluğun (OKB) bilişsel modellerinde inançlar önemli yer tutar. İnançlarda değişimi hedefleyen bilişsel girişimler tedavi başarısını artırabilir. Çalışmamızda ayaktan tedavi birimlerinde OKB tanısı ile izlenmekte olan hastalarda obsesif inançların incelenerek sağlıklı gönüllülerle karşılaştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Yönte...

Trichotillomania is defined as significant hair loss due to individuals' repetitive self-pulling of hair. It is a chronic disorder that leads to significant distress and functional impairment and is often difficult to treat. Although it has been recognized for a long time, it has attracted less attention from scholars compared to other psychiatric...

This study used repeated outcome measures over a 2-year period to compare the clinical and social benefits of routine schizophrenia treatment with those of evidence-based pharmacological and psychosocial treatment strategies. One hundred patients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia according to DSM-IV criteria were randomly assigned to 24 months...

ZET: Trikotillomani: Tanı, farmakoterapive kognitif davranışçı terapisi Trikotillomani, tekrarlayan saç yolmalar sonucu belirgin saç kaybına yol açan, süregen gidişli, kişinin işlevselliğinin tüm alanlarını olumsuz etkileyen, tedavisi güç bir bozuk-luktur. Uzun yıllardır bilinmesine rağmen diğer psikiyatrik bozukluklarla karşılaştırıldığında daha a...

Objective: Anxiety disorders are common and have negative impact on the individual, the health system and the society. In practice a substantial percentage of patients remain untreated and those who are treated mostly receive either pharmacotherapy or CBT as monotherapy or in combination. This article aims at reviewing the available evidence for an...

Introduction: This study examined the onset and 18-month longitudinal course of post-traumatic stress disorder morbidity in 79 people who were exposed to the man-mad "Sivas disaster" in Turkey, which caused 37 deaths and more than 60 injuries. Methods: The people who experienced the trauma were stratified into three groups, according to the exte...

While effective psychotropic medications have been introduced more than 50 years ago and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) as the most evidence-based psychotherapy was introduced for depression about 40 years ago substantial uncertainty continues to exist about the combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. On the one hand both forms of thera...

Objective: Loneliness at Work Scale (LAWS) was developed to measure loneliness at work by Wright, Burt and Strongman. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of Turkish version of the LAWS. Methods: Four hundred and thirty-six employees (254 females, 182 males) participated in the study. The study was conduct...

Although sex therapy is considered to be a relatively straight forward approach based on application of techniques, sex therapy is far more than simple application of specific techniques in the management of specific sexual dysfunctions. It requires a skilled therapist who can interpret behavioural, cognitive, supportive and educational elements in...

Although it is not a general rule, there are many men who suffer from the fact that women are not alike. There are many women however, who are equally frustrated that men are not more like women. Many couples get divorced and many suffer from relationship problems such as lack of communication and negotiation. Is this due to uniqueness and differen...

According to clinical trials literature, every person with a schizophrenic disorder should be provided with the combination of optimal dose antipsychotics, strategies to educate himself and his carers to cope more efficiently with environmental stresses, cognitive-behavioural strategies to enhance work and social goals and reducing residual symptom...

This study aimed to compare the clinical and social benefits associated with Optimal Case Management (OCM) treatment that employ cognitive-behavioural strategies to those associated with Routine Case Management (RCM) that is widely used in community health services. Hundred patients with schizophrenia were randomly allocated to OCM and RCM treatmen...

Objective: Nefazadone is an antidepressant that have a dual effect on serotonergic transmission by acting as both a reuptake inhibitor presynaptically and an antagonist at 5-HT2A receptor postsynaptically. Some authors have suggested that the 5-HT2A receptor may be involved in the pathophysiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this stu...

Cultural factors influence the presentation of problems, their management and the help-seeking behaviour of individuals and couples. Therefore a culturally tailored approach, rather than a standard one, should be preferred for successful intervention. This paper discusses some of the sociocultural factors that shape the clinical presentation of sex...

Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches in Schizoplırenia Treatment Although it is well known that the fundamental psychopatholo-gy in schizophrenia, is the structure and content ofthought, cog-nitive-behavioral approaches have hot yet been used sufficiently in treatment of schizophrenia. This paper discusses thi reasons for the insufpcient use ofcognitive...

Sex therapy is far more than the simple application of specific techniques in the management of specific sexual dysfunctions. It requires a skilled therapist who can interpret behavioural, cognitive, supportive and educational elements in a treatment package in an elegant way. An individually tailored approach, rather than a standard one, that cons...

The first National Symposium on Sexual Dysfunctions and Infertility was held in Cappadocia, Turkey from 13 to 16 November, 1996. The theme of the symposium was ‘Toward a multidisciplinary standard assessment‘. The aim was to establish minimal standard assessments and achieve better collaboration and liaison between those therapists experienced in p...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is characterized by the typical psychiatric symptoms that emerge following a distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience. These events include any serious threat to a person's life or physical integrity. Similar events are experienced by the members of the Turkish Armed Forces who work...

Sixty-six couples who made direct application or were referred to the sexual dysfunction unit of the Department of Psychiatry, Medical School of Ankara University, Turkey, during a one year period were assessed for their suitability for sex therapy. Suitable couples were treated for the present sexual dysfunction. The assessment for suitability inc...

Ninety-nine phobic patients (agora-, social and specific phobics) were randomized to one of three treatment: 1) Ee — clinician-accompanied exposure (E) plus self-exposure (e); 2) self-exposure only — (e); or 3) self-relaxation with no exposure — (r). All had six 60-minute treatment sessions from weeks 0–8 and were asked to practice e or r for 90 mi...

Objective: Loneliness at Work Scale (LAWS) was developed to measure loneliness at work by Wright, Burt and Strongman. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of Turkish version of the LAWS. Methods: Four hundred and thirty-six employees (254 females, 182 males) participated in the study. The study was conduct...

A myth is a legend or story which is based on old wives tales rather than empirical evidence. Schizophrenia is surrounded by many myths that negatively impact upon the perception, under- standing, early intervention, and treatment of the disorder. This paper discusses some of these myths and their counterevidences.