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Aydan earned a B.A. in Psychology, with Sociology minor (1978), an M.A. in Applied Psychology (1980) and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (1982) from Hacettepe University. She received her second doctorate in Clinical & Organizational Psychology from Denver University as a Fulbright scholar. Following her clinical internship at the Mount Sinai Services of CUNY, and some postdoctoral training in psychoanalysis at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, she joined Bogazici University where she has been teaching at the Institute of Social Sciences and the Department of Educational Sciences and Psychological Services since 1987. She became an Associate Professor in 1991, a full Professor in 1996, and chaired the Department for various terms.
Aydan has been a visiting scholar at the University of Geneva, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke, Columbia, Rutgers, NYU and Clark University. She has organized various international academic events including the 10th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology in Istanbul in 2003. She is serving on the executive board of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, and is an active member of various other academic associations. She is on the editorial boards of the Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, International Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Turkish Psychology Journal, and is the founding editor of the online journal Social Practice/Psychological Theorizing.
Her research interests include various aspects of metaheory, and theory-building, critical psychoanalysis; socio-historical constructions of identity; psychopolitical theory of alternative modernities; collective discourses of subjectivity; ontogenesis and sociogenesis of violence; transformations of the self and culture; family therapy and discourses; transnationalization of psychological knowledge; transdisciplinarity; participatory action research; and postmodern ethics.
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