A Turkish Perspective on Family Therapy: An Interview With Hürol Fisiloglu

Abstract

Hürol Fisiloglu, is an associate professor of clinical psychology and currently teaching at Middle East Technical University, Department of Psychology, Ankara. He received his Ph.D. at State University of New York at Buffalo. His main fields of interest are family and marriage functioning, intergenerational relationships, family and marriage therapy,-divorce and remarriage processes, family and handicapped children, family cohesion, marital adjustment, single parents, remarried families, and consanguineous marriages. The views of Hürol Fisiloglu shared in the interview are based on his own experiences as a therapist. He noted that they should not be taken as a representation of the Turkish culture as a whole. This interview took place in August 2003.