Psychiatry
Prof. Dr. Habib Erensoy
Languages: Turkish English Persian
Areas of expertise
- Addiction Psychiatry
- Anxiety Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- Psycho-Oncology
- Sexual Dysfunctions
About
Prof. Dr. Habib Erensoy completed medical school in 1995 and spent the next seven years, until 2002, as a general practitioner both in Türkiye and abroad.
Specialist training
His psychiatry residency was at the Department of Psychiatry, Istanbul University's Istanbul Faculty of Medicine (Çapa), and he became a board-certified psychiatrist in 2006. His residency thesis investigated the prevalence, clinical characteristics and comorbidities of alcohol and substance use disorders among patients attending the psychiatry outpatient clinic.
In 2005 he trained in addiction psychiatry at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He also completed a 300-hour course on addiction counselling and treatment methods that ran over one and a half years. From 2006 to 2010 he worked, under supervision, in psycho-oncology and consultation-liaison psychiatry, and trained at CETAD in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions.
His compulsory state service as a psychiatrist was completed in Şanlıurfa. He has worked as a psychiatrist at NPİSTANBUL Hospital since 2010.
Clinical interests
- Addiction psychiatry
- Anxiety disorders
- Personality disorders
- Consultation-liaison psychiatry
- Psycho-oncology
- Sexual dysfunctions
Academic work and memberships
Dr. Erensoy has published in Turkish and international journals and is a member of the advisory board of the journal Addiction. He belongs to the Turkish Psychiatric Association, the Turkish Medical Association and the Istanbul Medical Chamber. He speaks English and Farsi fluently.
Education
- 2006: Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine – Department of Psychiatry
- 2006: Training in Addiction Counseling and Treatment Methods
- 2005: University of Amsterdam – Training in Addiction Psychiatry
- 1995: Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine
Conditions treated
Treatments and technology
- Technology Transcranial magnetic stimulation A non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate specific brain regions, mainly for depression that has not responded to medication.
Other specialists in this field
- Prof. Dr. Oğuz Tan
- Prof. Dr. Engin Emrem Beştepe
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ceylan Ergül Arslan
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Duygu Kaya Yertutanol
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sinem Zeynep Metin
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erman Şentürk