Veronika Juríčková, Ph.D., is a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the Czech Republic. She earned her Ph.D. in Medical Psychology and Psychopathology from the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Czech Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, where she is undergoing clinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). Alongside her research work, she provides individual psychotherapy for patients with personality disorders and serves as an academic, teaching statistics, methodology, and cognitive and clinical psychology at Ambis University in the Czech Republic.