I am a psychologist, systems thinking practitioner, and group psychotherapist.
As a qualitative researcher I am interested in people’s lived experiences and the stories they share. My work often integrates narrative, multimodal, creative and appreciative methods to explore how individuals and groups give meaning to their joys, difficulties, and dreams for the future.
Philosophy (including problems of cognition, etc.) is exclusively an affair of action and practice
— Simone Weil
This work has taken a lifetime to develop before I ever placed fingers on keyboard to enable the words and the worlds to be expressed here
— Dan Siegel
Recent Publications
Brailas, A. (2025). The Appreciative Qualitative Interview: A Research Method for Empowering People. Methodology. European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 21(1), 74–90. https://doi.org/10.5964/meth.15421
Brailas, A. (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Research: Beyond Outsourcing Data Analysis to the Machine. Psychology International, 7(3), 78. [link]
Brailas, A., & Katerelos, I. (2025). Qualitative Inquiry in the era of artificial intelligence: Why and how to keep the practice human?. Homo Virtualis, 8(2), 1–24. [link]
Brailas, A. (2025). Replication Crisis in Psychology, Second-Order Cybernetics, and Transactional Causality: From Experimental Psychology to Applied Psychological Practice. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 59(1), 14. [link]
Brailas, A., & Papachristopoulos, K. (2023). Systems thinking, rhizomes, and community-based qualitative research: An introduction to Nomadic Thematic Analysis. In E. Tseliou, C. Demuth, E. Georgaca, & B. Gough (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research. Routledge. [link]
Brailas, A., Tragou, E., & Papachristopoulos, K. (2023). Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis and Coding with QualCoder. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 7(3), 19-31. [link]
Brailas, A. (2020). Using Drawings in Qualitative Interviews: An Introduction to the Practice. The Qualitative Report, 25(12), 4447–4460. [link]