Founded in 1986, the department is part of the Psychology major, established as an independent major in 1972.
Scientific research direction: Social, Political and Ethnopsychology; Work and Organizational Psychology; Organizational Development; Human Resource Management; Advertising Psychology and Economic Psychology; Educational Psychology; Clinical and Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy
The teaching staff of the department is involved in development and teaching of the bachelor’s degree program in Psychology and master’s degree programs in Work and Organizational Psychology, Social and Legal Psychology, Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Consulting. The members of the department actively participate in a joint international distance learning project in English in the following master’s and doctoral degree programs: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Mental Health Studies, Social Psychology, Political Psychology, Psychology of Conflict Management and Mediation.
The members of the department participate in numerous national and international projects, carried out in cooperation with universities in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the USA, Russia, etc.
There are numerous scientific publications in Bulgarian and foreign scientific journals as well as studies and monographs dedicated to the problems of social, ethnic and political psychology; work and organizational psychology; advertising psychology and economic psychology; educational psychology, clinical and counseling psychology and psychotherapy.
Members of the department established and implement active scientific and applied activity in the University Center for Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, a specialized unit for the Psychology major.
PhD Programmes
n_dimitrov@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Social, ethnic and political psychology
Main disciplines
Professor of Social, Ethnic and Political Psychology
jankulova@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Educational Psychology,School Psychology, Child Psychology, Personality psychology, Development and Age psychology, Psychology of motivation and lifelong learning, Self-regulated and organizational learning, Emotion management and self-regulation of behavior
Main disciplines
Educational Psychology; Psychology; Team management
r.krumova@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Transplantational Psychology
Main disciplines
Clinical Psychology, Medical Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Meeting of Theory and Practice, Psychopathology, Transplantational Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Medicine and other
seilieva@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Main disciplines
stoeva@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Medical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology
Main disciplines
Counseling Psychology, Psychopathology, Clinical Psychology, Skills and Strategies of Psychological Counseling, Psychology of Communication, Psychology of learning, Communicative Culture
a_krumova@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Educational Psychology; Clinical psychology; Psychopathology
Main disciplines
Psychology; Educational Psychology; Clinical psychology; Psychopathology
vihra@phls.uni-sofia.bg
vihranaydenova@yahoo.com
Research field and interests
Work and organizational psychology, Human resource management and development, Qualitative methods in the social sciences, Stress and health, Cross-national studies, etc
Main disciplines
Work psychology, Human resource management and development, Talent management, Stress and health, Cross-national studies, etc.
gkirilov@uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Clinical Psychology, Cognitive behavioural therapy, Forensic psychology, Psychopathology, Neuropsychology
Main disciplines
Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Medical Psychology, Internship, Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy
ncnikolov@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Social and Political Psychology, Group Dynamic Training and Development, Interpretive Social Psychology of Art, and Social Ontology.
Main disciplines
Social Psychology, Political Psychology, Group Dynamic Training, Communication and communicative training.
v_vitanova@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Scientific and research interests mainly in the field of work and organizational psychology with a focus on work values, work motivation, work attitudes, training and development of human resources, communication processes in an organizational context, management of emotions in the work environment, organizational behavior, etc.
Main disciplines
Training and development of personnel, Emotional intelligence and communicative competence, Organizational behavior, Organizational culture and behavior, Cross-cultural communication, Work psychology Part I-seminars, Emotional intelligence and communications, Communication and communication training
damyana_ivanova@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Scientific field: Economic psychology
Research interests: Economic psychology , behavioral economics,
innovations and entrepreneurship, consumer behavior, brand management, corporate social responsibility, psychology of advertising
Main disciplines
Economic psychology; Consumer behavior; Brand and social responsibility; Innovations and entrepreneurship in organizations; Psychology of customer communications; Impression management and business etiquette
kiradzhieva@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Educational Psychology
Main disciplines
Educational Psychology
ivana.bocheva@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Educational Psychology
Main disciplines
Educational Psychology
kalojanka@uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Social Psychology, Ethnopsychology, Psychology of Religion
Main disciplines
Ethnopsychology, Psychology of Religion
martinvk@uni-sofia.bg
martin.koleff@gmail.com
Research field and interests
Main disciplines
plama@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Research field and interests
Scientific field: Organizational psychology
Research interests: Organizational psychology; leadership; crisis leadership; toxic leadership; crisis management; conflict resolution; simulated practice training; entrepreneurship; women entrepreneurship; migration; professional stress, etc.
Main disciplines
Organizational Psychology (in English); Crisis Management (in English); Leadership Styles and Competences (in Bulgarian); Crisis and Conflict Management (in Bulgarian); Organizational Psychology (in Bulgarian); Organizational Behavior (in Bulgarian); Work with Groups (in Bulgarian);