Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu

Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu — Biography

Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu (born 1947 in Ankara) is a Turkish psychiatrist, author and television presenter. After attending TED Ankara College she enrolled at Ankara University's Faculty of Medicine, and while still a student she passed TRT's announcer exam and began appearing on television in 1965, earning the nickname 'Miss TRT'. Following her graduation in 1972 she went through a period caught between broadcasting and medicine; she obtained her psychiatry specialization from Hacettepe University in 1977 and spent five years there as a lecturer. During that time she also hosted İnsan ve Dünyası, a program produced jointly by the university and TRT.

She began writing in 2004 with Madalyonun İçi, Bir Psikiyatrın Not Defterinden, drawing on her clinical experience to turn real cases she had witnessed into psychotherapeutic novels. Works such as Hayata Dön, Kral Kaybederse and Camdaki Kız became the basis for widely watched television dramas including İstanbullu Gelin, Kırmızı Oda, Masumlar Apartmanı, Doğduğun Ev Kaderindir, Yalı Çapkını and Terzi. Since 2021 she has written weekly columns on psychology for the Hürriyet newspaper.