Department: Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting

Lotte Morel obtained a Master of Science in Psychology (Clinical Psychology) in 2021, and a Master of Science in Conflict and Development Studies in 2023, both at Ghent University.In her PhD she combines her interests in both these domains by researching the role of structural-institutional and cultural racism within mental health care institutions in Flanders. Using a qualitative methodology and grounding the project in a psychoanalytical theoretical framework based on the work of Fanon, she aims to investigate these dimensions of racism as well as how it impacts the mental wellbeing of patients with a migration background.

I graduated as a clinical psychologist in 2005 (UGent) and started working as a psychotherapist in Brussels. I’ve always been interested in the way migration, religion and identity influence each other. I’ve wrote multiple publications and often organized trainings on this matter (from the perspective of health care and psychosocial well-being). In 2015 I started questionning how we can understand what drives someone towards radicalization. As of 2021 I’m working on a PhD that thrives to study radicalization and deradicalization by the way of a qualitative study. I’m conducting this study from a psychoanalytical perspective by the use of the notion of identity