Ajna Kis

After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Szeged, she began her professional career in child and adolescent psychiatry, and later also gained experience on an adult psychiatric ward. Alongside her work as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, she completed psychotherapy training, as she considers a psychotherapeutic approach an indispensable part of complex therapeutic work. After passing her board examinations, she continued her medical practice in an outpatient setting.

She has also been teaching since 2019. She is involved in the training of psychologists and of child and adolescent mental health counsellors, teaching child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental psychopathology and related professional fields.

Over time, her professional interest has extended beyond the individual to the functioning of communities. She is interested in understanding how the individual and the social environment influence each other, what factors shape life paths, and how human diversity can be understood in social and cultural contexts. With this in mind, she completed the Master’s programme in Cultural Anthropology at the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, and then continued her research in the Interdisciplinary Social Research doctoral programme of the ELTE Doctoral School of Sociology.

In her child and adolescent psychiatric work, the assessment of the child’s psychological state, diagnostic thinking and the development of a therapeutic plan take place within a complex approach. She considers it important that the difficulties of a child or family are not approached from a single perspective. As a member of the diagnostic team of the MURMO Centre for Specialist Psychology and Art Therapy, she works together with allied professions, each complementing the others’ knowledge, in exploring problems and formulating therapeutic recommendations.

Within the MURMO community, she works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and she also contributes as a volunteer to the thematic parent clubs, supporting families in functioning more harmoniously.