Prof. Dr. Medaim Yanık began his medical education at Istanbul Medical Faculty, in 1987. He completed his psychiatry residency at Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, in 2000. Between the years 2005 and 2009, he was Chief Clinician at Bakırköy Prof. Dr. Mazhar Osman Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Education and Research Hospital. During this period, he also carried a leading role in the transition of electroconvulsive therapy from unmodified to modified, not only at Bakırköy, but also at other mental health institutions. He was also the Mental Health Advisor of the Ministry of Health at the time, where he worked on the “Compilation of the Mental Health Action Plan”, “The Transition to the Community Based Mental Health Model”, “The Improvement of Psychiatric Hospitals” and “The Architecture of Psychiatric Hospitals”. Between the years 2009 and 2015, he was the founding academic member of the Psychology Department of Istanbul Şehir University. Currently, he is at the Psychology Department of The Ibn Haldun University He completed his dissertation on traumatic experiences of childhood and recovered memory. Psychotherapy for DID patients, is an area he has specialized in. He also studying about family and couple relationships especially about “marriage enhancement program”. He has 25 articles that have been published in international journals, and 21 articles that have been published in national journals.