Antonios Poulios

Antonios Poulios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Crete since 2026. They hold a degree in Psychology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. From the same department, they obtained a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology as a scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation, as well as a PhD in Clinical Psychology.

They work in private practice, providing psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy for adults and clinical supervision. They taught as an adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the University of Crete, and continue to teach in the MSc Program in Clinical Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as at the University of Volos in the Training Program in Integrative Psychotherapy “Alypias Techni.”

They are also a scientific collaborator of AIDS Action Europe on issues related to chemsex; of the research group “Queer Analysis” at the School of Cultural Analysis of the University of Amsterdam; of the Greek Association of People Living with HIV “Positive Voice,” where they served as Scientific Coordinator of “Red Umbrella Athens” (a primary prevention, advocacy, support, and empowerment organization for people working in sex work) from 2015 to 2023; and of Orlando LGBT+ Mental Health Without Stigma. They are, finally, an external collaborator of the Greek National Opera.

Their research and scientific interests include clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, substance use (with an emphasis on recreational drug use, sexualized drug use, and chemsex), the impact of social inequalities and discrimination on biopsychosocial health, sexuality, gender identities, human rights, and community psychology.

They are a member of the Hellenic Psychological Society (member of the Divisions of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology, Political Psychology, and LGBTI+ Psychology) and of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. They have received the advanced therapist accreditation in gender, sexuality, and relational diversity from Pink Therapy.

In 2022, they received the international award for Outstanding Contribution to an Intersectional Psychoanalytic and Cultural Approach to Sexuality from the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, awarded by the Alexandra and Martyn Symonds Foundation. In 2025, they received the “Dimitris Georgas” Early Career Researcher Award from the Hellenic Psychological Society.

Poulios, A., Triantafyllidou, S., Apostolidou, A., Krasidis, C., Valdez, paez Petrou, I., Kyprianou, E., Yiasemi, I., Papadaki, A., Minas, C., Nikolopoulos, G., Georgiou, C. (2025). Sexualized drug use and its association with sexual health among men who have sex with men in Cyprus. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 30(1), 156–167. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.39296

Aslanis, A., Pavlopoulos, V., Vegkos, N., Papadaki, A., Apostolidou, A., Boziaris, G., Keratsas, G., Levisianos-Lampropoulos, I., Papastefanaki, K., Moran, P., Triantafyllidou, S., Tsiaras, V., Hilton, J., Dedes, N., Poulios, A. (2025). The mental health burden of LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers in Greece. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108, 102257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102257

Πούλιος, Α., Αποστολίδου, Α., Βλαχοδημητροπούλου-Ροντρίγκεζ, Κ. (επιμ.) (2024) Εργασία στο σεξ: Οδηγός για καλές πρακτικές στην παροχή υπηρεσιών. Αθήνα: Red Umbrella Athens, Σύλλογος Οροθετικών Ελλάδας «Θετική Φωνή».

Poulios, A. & Papadaki, A. (2024). The babies of the 80s: The boys are still ashamed of crying. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00483-z

Poulios, A. (2022). Harm reduction in the context of chemsex: an AIDS Action Europe training manual. Berlin: AIDS Action Europe.

Triantafyllidou, S., Ntinopoulou, E., Siamitrou, P., Apostolidou, A., Kouroupou, A, Kotsia, S., Papadaki, A., Papadopetrakis, G., Papastefanaki, K., Sougle, A., Tsiaras, V., Canellopoulos, L., Poulios, A. (2024). Precarity factors of street-based sex work in criminalized contexts: a study in Athens, Greece. Feminist encounters, 8 (2), DOI:10.20897/femenc/14951

Christopoulos, A., Pavlopoulos, V., Poulios, A., Karadimitri, K., Lagos, E., Stavrakaki, M., Stefanakou, E., Alexopoulou, K., Bekiari, A., Ktena, M., Panaritis, C., Risvas, C., Tsiodra, M., Pomini, V., & Gournellis, R. (2024). From reflective functioning to conspiracy thinking in the COVID-19 pandemic: Direct and indirect pathways. Psychology: the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 29(1), 214-230. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.31847

Poulios, A., Apostolidou, A., Triantafyllidou, S., Krasidis, C., Valdez Paez petrou, I., kakota, Z., Papadopetrakis, G., Kyprianou, E., Yiasemi, I., Georgiou, C., Nikolopoulos, G., Minas, C. (2023). The Distinction Between Chemsex and Sexualized Drug Use Among Men Who have Sex with Men. Sexuality & Culture, 28, 1276-1288 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10179-8

Poulios, A. (2022) Chemsex: Reintroducing Sexuality in the Pleasure and Pain of the Infans, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 23 (3), 171-183, https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2097472

Poulios, A., Apostolidou, A., Triantafyllidou, S., Protopapas, K., Tapeinos, A., Papadopetrakis, G., Papadopoulou, M., Antoniadou, A., Psichogiou, M., & Canellopoulos, L. (2022) Sexualized Drug Use and Chemsex: Their Association with Sexual Health Among Men who have Sex with Men Living in Greece, International Journal of Sexual Health, 34 (3), 450-461, DOI: 10.1080/19317611.2022.2045417

Poulios A., Christopoulos A., Pavlopoulos V., Tsiodra M., Stefanakou E., Stavrakaki M., Risvas Ch., Panaritis Ch., Lagos E., Ktena M., Karadimitri K., Bekiari A., Alexopoulou K., Pomini V., Gournellis R., Ginieri-Coccossis M. (2021). COVID-19 and Quality of Life: The Role of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Factors. Psychology, 2021, 12, 1506-1528, DOI:10.4236/psych.2021.1210095

Christopoulos, A, Poulios, A., Pavlopoulos, V. (2020). The relationship between dimensions of mental health and alexithymia in multiple sclerosis patients. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 46, DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2020.102525

Courses

1. PSY-2504 Psychoanalytic Thought (elective course)
2. PSY-4508 Gender and Sexuality: Critical, Intersectional, and Clinical Approaches (seminar)
3. SKEK208 / SKEPS4001 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Sexuality (interdepartmental elective)
4. PSY-3608 Psychosomatic and Somatoform Disorders (elective course)
5. PSY-3614 Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (elective course)