Human Dignity And Creativity In The Times of Uncertainty – Adi Hasanbašić

Adi Hasanbašić comes from Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) but for the last 5 years he has been living and working in Prague (Czech Republic).

He finished studies of Psychology and Social and cultural anthropology. He also completed training in Gestalt Therapy, Open Dialogue and recently got his Master’s degree in Gestalt Therapy.

He was a founder and director of the NGO Metanoia (Sarajevo) which had a focus on mental health in the community while developing different outlooks and projects concerning mental health topics. He helped create and develop the Hearing Voices Network for Western Balkan and connected colleagues from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia in their joint efforts. Adi also helped spread across the Western Balkan an idea about a radio show regarding mental health called “Voice of Madness Live on Air”, which got him an award for contribution in developing mental health awareness in Bosnia. The radio show got a lot of attention, including Al Jazeera’s documentary about it.

Currently, he is working in the Center for mental health in Prague and has a private therapy practice. Also, he is a main coordinator and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network for Czech Republic and facilitator of the Hearing Voices groups in Prague.

He is also a proud recipient of the award from Intervoice for supporting the development of HV groups.

He translated several books about mental health into Bosnian language and published articles about psychotherapy and mental health in general.

Adi’s main interests are critical psychology and psychiatry, psychiatric anthropology, psychotherapy, Open Dialogue and Hearing Voices approach. As his main intellectual inspiration and reason for studying psychology he mentions the work of Ronald David Laing.

Adi is happily married and recently became a father of a beautiful girl. Beside his family, he can’t imagine his life without tea, books and traveling.