Prof. Dr. Sermin Kesebir

Prof. Dr. Sermin Kesebir is a psychiatrist and academic whose clinical and research career has centred on mood disorders. She currently teaches as a professor at the Üsküdar University Faculty of Medicine and sees patients as a consultant physician in the outpatient department of NPİSTANBUL Hospital.

Education and career

After earning her medical degree from Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine in 1995, she trained as a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Ege University School of Medicine. Her compulsory service took her to Kırıkkale Specialized Training and Research Hospital, and in 2008 she was awarded the title of associate professor at Adnan Menderes University.

From 2009 to 2014 she worked as a teaching physician at Erenköy Mental and Nervous Diseases Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul, where she ran the acute psychosis ward. She joined Üsküdar University in 2014 as a professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, and since 2018 she has held her professorship in the Faculty of Medicine, alongside her outpatient consultations at NPİSTANBUL.

Clinical and academic interests

• Mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorders
• Consultation-liaison psychiatry
• Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapies

Research and publications

Prof. Kesebir’s record includes more than 100 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and more than 100 papers presented at scientific meetings, among them award-winning studies. Her research has made significant contributions on bipolar disorder, genetics and epigenetics, biological and electrophysiological markers, metabolic syndrome, co-occurring physical illness and childhood trauma. Her best-known international work has been published in prestigious journals including the Journal of Affective Disorders, Comprehensive Psychiatry, the Turkish Journal of Psychiatry, Heliyon, Frontiers in Psychiatry, the World Journal of Clinical Cases, the Journal of Clinical Medicine Research and Medical Research Archives.

She has written important chapters for books and guidelines issued by the Turkish Psychiatric Association and its scientific working groups, on depression treatment guidelines, bipolar disorders, psychoanalytic psychotherapies and women’s mental health. She is also the author of the book “The Rhythm of Brain Waves, Entropy, and Chaos Through a Psychiatrist’s Eyes: Bipolar Self, Bipolar EEG, Body-Mind.”

Professional memberships

She is an active member of many scientific bodies in Türkiye and abroad, first and foremost the Mood Disorders Scientific Working Group of the Turkish Psychiatric Association. Her other key memberships include:

• Abdülkadir Özbek Psychodrama Institute
• Halime Odağ Foundation (Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapies)
• Bipolar Life Association
• Bipolar Disorders Association
• American Psychiatric Association (APA)
• International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD)
• International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD)