Dr. Hélène Issa
Assistant Professor
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Office: HER 310
Tel. ext.: 394
helene.issa@haigazian.edu.lb

BIO
Helene Issa, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a practicing psychoanalyst whose work bridges academic teaching, clinical practice, and psychoanalytic formation. She holds a PhD in Clinical and Psychopathological Psychology (2004) and has been psychotherapist since 1994.

Dr. Issa has extensive teaching experience, having lectured for over fifteen years at the Military School. Since 2017, she has served as a lecturer and supervisor in psychoanalysis at the Chinese-American Psychoanalytic Association. At the BEING Institute, she maintains a psychoanalytic practice while supervising and training analysts and therapists in formation. She co-founded and chaired the Department of Psychology at the University of Balamand (UOB), and has also taught at the Lebanese University (UL), the Lebanese American University (LAU), and the Psychoanalytic Institute in California.

She also co-founded several professional associations in the field, including the Forum of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian field in Lebanon and the Syndicate of Psychologists and Psychoanalysts (2008). During the time of War in 2024, she launched the Hear for Frontliners initiative to support healthcare professionals.

A member of the Lebanese Order of Psychologists (LOPSY), the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), and the École de Psychanalyse du Forum du Champ Lacanien (EPFCL) in France.

Dr. Issa remains deeply committed to psychoanalytic thought, clinical ethics, and the formation of future generations of practitioners.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Functional and dysfunctional families
Child and Adolescents Development
Child, Adolescent and adult psychopathology
Ethics and Deontology

REASEARCH INTERESTS

Object Relations Theory
Sexual Perversions and Incest
Clinical Ethics and Deontology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

• Chikhani, L. & Issa, H., (2012). The bodybuilding passage to the act in the adolescent, in International conference on Psychological Sciences, World Academy for Sciences, Technology and Engineering, Switzerland, Lucerne.
• Issa H. (2007), Multiple Incest, in La Psychothérapie Aujourd’hui, Beirut, Society of Practitioners in Psychotherapy and Consultants (SPC), New Printing Press, Volume 5. (Original in Arabic)
• Issa H. (2006), Adelphic Incest, in La Psychothérapie Aujourd’hui, Beirut, Society of Practitioners in Psychotherapy and Consultants (SPC), New Printing Press, Volume 4. (Original in Arabic)

Books/ Book Chapters

• Chikhani, L., & Issa, H., (2013). Acts of the Body, Trilogy on narcissism pathologies related to the body, New York: Nova Publishers.
• Chikhani, L., Issa, H., (2012), Disorganization Of The Collective Envelopes And The Effraction Of The Ego Of The Child – In the experience of war (Lebanon – July/August 2006), in Psychology of War, New York, Nova Publishers.)

ACADEMIC DEGREES

PhD in Clinical psychology and Psychopathology, Poitiers University – France
Master in Clinical Psychology, Lebanese University
B.A. in Psychology, Lebanese University