Academic Staff

Professor Boratav’s academic research and teaching have been primarily on gender, sexuality, and values in the context of culture, social psychology, and health psychology. Her research has been published as national and international book chapters, as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender and Society, Sex Roles, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and Feminism & Psychology. 

Her most recent research includes a country wide study of married men that had both a qualitative and quantitative component, and a  country wide study of married women research on married women.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy, therapist-client dyad, affect and change in psychotherapy, time perception, analytic third, mental health of university students, operationalization of psychoanalytic concepts

Bipolar disorder; Group Psychotherapies; Relational Needs, Resilience, Creativity; Autism, Early Intervention in Autism; Expressive Arts Therapy

Psychotherapy Process Research, Mentalization, Emotion Regulation, Infant Mental Health