Esmina Avdibegović, professor emeritus, specialist in neuropsychiatry, subspecialist in social psychiatry, retired from 2022. Born on 1957, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sarajevo in 1981, and received her master's degree in 1997 and doctorate in 2004 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tuzla. She worked at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tuzla and at the Department of Psychiatry of the University Clinical Center Tuzla. She completed education in group analysis with IGA Zagreb and has educator degree. She is the president of the Association of Group Analysts in Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
She was a leader and collaborator in several scientific and professional projects, mentored three master's theses and three doctoral theses, published several scientific and professional papers, several chapters in books, published two textbooks and was the editor of several proceedings of scientific and professional conferences. The main areas of research are mental health and human rights, social psychiatry, suicidology, psychotraumatology and psychotherapy.