Education Professional degree in psychology, Universidad de Chile, l962. Teaching experience
Research experience
Clinical practice
Ritmo y personalidad: estudio experimental. Unpublished dissertation, U. of Chile, 1962. Breve Introducción a la Terapia Gestáltica de Grupo. Revista Interamericana de Psicología, vol VIII, l968, pp 177-191. Personality Correlates of Music Preference. Unpublished Master's Thesis, UC Berkeley, 1967. Some variables affecting therapeutic outcome in Gestalt therapy groups. Presented at the Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Montevideo, Uruguay, l969. La Personalidad Creadora. Presented at the Jornadas Nacionales sobre las Artes, U. de Chile, l970. Some determinants of self-esteem in three ethnic groups. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, UCLA, l974. Personality Traits and Adjustment. In Gerard, H.B. and Miller, N. School Desegregation, New York: Plenum, 1975. How to Unblock, Psychology Today, Jan. l978. Creativity as Communication. Presented at the Psychology Forums, sponsored by the Ziff Corporation, New York, 1979. Talent and Creativity: a Discussion of Jerome Oremlan’s paper. Presented at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, l981. Assimilation in Art and Psychotherapy. Paper presented at the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis, 1984. The Role of the Accident in the Creative Act. Paper presented at a Conference on Creativity and Madness, Maui, Hawaii, 1982. On Not Knowing. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, 1983. The Psycho-Dynamics of Creative Blocks. Unpublished manuscript, 1985. Destruction et Création. Psychanalyse à l'Université, Paris, 1984, vol 9, p 483-490. Chaos and Control in the Creative Process. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, l985, vol 13, N 1, pp 129-138. Creativity: Trait or Quest. Paper presented at the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis, 1986. Expanding the Limits: New Experiences in Groups. Unpublished manuscript, 1987. Conditions that Derail the True Self during Creative Work. Paper presented at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, February, 1989 An Alternative to Interpretation. Paper presented at the Southern California Chapter of Division 39 Scientific Meeting, April 1989 The Role of Omnipotence in Creativity. Unpublished manuscript, 1990. Working with Envy and its Manifestations. Workshop presented at the Psychoaonalytic Center of California, Los Angeles, 1991. Victims of Envy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New Orleans, 1991. Envy of the Woman in the Work of Max Beckman. Paper presented at the Winter Meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, Dec. 1991. From A to B and Back to A: Emotional Development in Groups, GROUP,1991, vol 15, n 4, p 213-218. New York: Brunner Mazel. Guilt: Self-torture or the Triumph of Love. Workshop given at the Southern California Society and Institute, April 1994. The Initial Phase in Group Psychotherapy: a Kleinian Perspective. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994. A Kleinian Approach to Groups. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 1996, 46 (2) p 177-191. The use of countertransference in response to narcissistic defenses of group members, Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, vol. 15, no. 2 issue dedicated to the Bion Centennial. Narcissistic Patients: Threat of Opportunity? Paper presented at the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, San Francisco, October 1997 “Destruction as the Cause of Coming into Being”. Workshop on Sabina Spielrein’s 1912 paper. Given at the Pspychoanalytic Center of California (PCC), Los Angeles, March 1998 Bearable and Unbearable Guilt: A Kleinian Perspective, Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Vol. LXVII, 1998, No. 3, pp. 351-378.
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