Dr Taline Artinian

About me:

Taline is an academic, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with an interdisciplinary background in Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology and Philosophy (Ethics). Her research has focused on transgenerational trauma and construction of identity, exploring links with depression, anxiety and alienation in minority groups that have survived collective trauma such as genocide and civil war. She has done extensive research into experiences of guilt and shame in adolescence in relation to body image, gender and depression. Her methodological expertise is in qualitative theories and methods.

Taline has worked with vulnerable persons, victims of human trafficking and migrant women in the Middle East within the context of a project for the UNHCR. This work sparked her interest and research into the phenomenology and ethics of dyadic gratitude for a meaningful engagement with the world. Her research was published in a monograph in December 2025 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-06932-0

She has researched the ethics of clinical trials of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, psychedelic altered states of consciousness and dyadic gratitude, leading to the publication of a book chapter and a co-authored article.

Taline's recent research explores decolonial approaches to research methodologies, teaching and clinical practice in Clinical Psychology. 

She is a lecturer and research tutor in the Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Doctor of Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Clinical Practice programme at the University of Exeter. She is the co-lead of the DClinPGR Lived Experience Group and the DClinPGR Decolonisation lead.