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The Athenian Institute of Anthropos (AIA).
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The Athenian Institute of Anthropos (AIA) – the first center for family therapy, group therapy, community interventions, and systemic practice in Europe – was founded in 1963 in Greece, by George and Vasso Vassiliou, as a center for training, therapy, prevention, consultation, research, and development of systemic applications to the systems of Anthropos (meaning the whole human being, in Greek).
The AIA logo, with the image of a lantern, accompanied by the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes’ quote “For Anthropos I search,” symbolizes the vision of its founders for a world where cooperation and humanness would prevail over antagonism and exploitation.
The ΑΙΑ has been functioning for over 50 years as a collective professional coevolving process, as an international interdisciplinary meeting point and incubator of theory development, and as a base for launching collaborative community-oriented projects.
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Polemi-Todoulou, M. (2018). The Athenian Institute of Anthropos. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_980-1
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