Eight peer-reviewed abstracts, two clinical tools, and one policy reading from Sofia State University, BAS, and partner clinics across 42 countries — translated into practical use for your Tuesday morning.
A research synthesis, a clinical tool, a case comment, and a policy reading — published Tuesday mornings since 2009.
The label masks three distinct clinical pictures — atypical bipolar II, complex PTSD with dissociative features, and iatrogenic withdrawal. The author proposes a 12-question re-screening protocol for primary-care psychiatry referrals.
Read the synthesis →Replaces the patchwork of translated instruments most Sofia clinics improvise. Includes a one-page clinician-side scoring key, ICD-11 cross-references, and a referral letter template in Bulgarian and English.
Open the tool →A senior clinician's working note on the difference between a patient's withdrawal from therapy and a therapist's failure of attunement. Drawing on three anonymised case vignettes from a 22-year practice in central Sofia.
Read the comment →A plain-language walk-through of the new tariff structure, the documentation burden it adds, and three concrete billing scenarios for group practices in Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna. Co-published with the Bulgarian Psychological Association.
Read the analysis →In 2023, our consortium's six-country replication of the Strange Situation procedure was featured in Nature Human Behaviour — the first time a Bulgarian-led clinical psychology group had been published in the journal's main section.
Across 1,108 mother–infant dyads in Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, Kenya, Chile, and the United States, Vlahova and colleagues demonstrated that disorganized attachment patterns cluster with specific cultural caregiving ecologies rather than with maternal sensitivity scores alone. The study has since been cited 214 times and informed the BPA's 2024 early-intervention guidelines.
Vlahova, M. et al. (2023). Caregiving ecologies and disorganized attachment: a six-country replication. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(11), 1489–1503. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01684-7
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“I started this institute in 2009 because Bulgarian clinicians deserved a publication that treated their work with the same seriousness that peer-reviewed journals do. Sixteen years on, the briefing still arrives every Tuesday — because the work still deserves it.”
