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I am a clinical psychologist born in Chile. I am an experienced psychotherapist specialised in the psychological treatment of adults. I started my practice as a psychotherapist more than 25 years ago. I worked as a full-time psychotherapist until I started my doctoral studies in 2009, since then I have worked both as a psychotherapist and a researcher. I completed my dissertation in 2013, entitled “Study of disorders of the pre-reflexive self and of the narratives of first admitted patients with schizophrenia” .
I studied psychology in Santiago de Chile and started my practice in psychotherapy in 1995. In 1999 I moved to Barcelona where I completed my training as a psychotherapist and was a resident for nearly 10 years. In 2001 I obtained a master’s degree in Cognitive-Social Therapy (Constructivist psychology) from University of Barcelona (Grant Mutual de Seguridad C.Ch.C.), and I worked as a psychotherapist in different public and private health centres, forming part of a clinical supervision group with a phenomenological-existentialist orientation led by the Catalan psychologist and psychotherapist Manuel Villegas Besora. When I returned to Chile in 2008 I obtained a diploma in Buddhist psychology and contemplative therapies (Grant Colegio de Psicólogos de Chile), and in 2009 I began my doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Chile, in the “Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy” (CONICYT/Beca Doctorado Nacional 2010/FOLIO 29110034), leading to the certification of Dr. phil. (psychology) by Heidelberg University, Germany. My doctoral thesis, with the aim of improving diagnosis with a view to psychotherapy, was an empirical phenomenological study of self and narrative disorders in schizophrenia, and was developed under the supervision of an international scientific committee with members from University of Chile, Catholic University of Chile, and Heidelberg University.
During my doctoral studies, I developed a more holistic view of schizophrenia, beyond the diagnostic emphasis of psychopathology, by means of a broader person centred approach to the patient, seeking to understand the anomalies of experience through meaningful connections with milestones of the patient’s life story. In this sense, my research not only went beyond the biomedical approach that reduces mental illness to a brain dysfunction, but also beyond the phenomenological approach to psychiatry, since both, from one point of view and another, are equally focused mainly in the problem of diagnosis. Thus, my thesis aimed at raising the ethical need of psychological care for patients with schizophrenia from their first hospitalisation, usually treated exclusively from a biomedical approach. My empirical research on the contextualisation of the symptoms of patients with schizophrenia showed the experience of vulnerability as a central aspect of this mental illness, making it possible to understand the manifestation of the illness from an empathic or psychological viewpoint, as well as for the formation of a more precise therapeutic focus.
In continuity with the previous approach, I developed my postdoctoral project entitled “Human vulnerability: Towards a phenomenological-anthropological approach to psychiatry” (CONICYT- PFCHA / Becas CHILE postdoctorado en el extranjero/2017 – FOLIO 74180011) at Heidelberg University during two years, 2018 and 2019, under the supervision of the German psychiatrist and philosopher Thomas Fuchs. During this research stay I deepened the study of the conceptualisation of the experience of vulnerability, which aimed at understanding it, namely, as a subjectively sensitivity to traumatic life situations, and even hypersensitivity to situations of everyday life, otherwise quite trivial, which can lead to psychopathology. This approach to subjective first-person experience is essential to complement objectifying or third-person perspectives on vulnerability, and it also includes an inherent reference to the ethical aspects of the second-person perspective. Precisely, from the phenomenological analysis of the ethical aspects of human vulnerability and its relationship with mental illness, I found in the concept of empathy a relevant topic for my current research project.
Since 2020, I am the responsible researcher of the project entitled “Phenomenology of Empathy: The constitution of Thou- and we-relationships and their pathologies” (ANID / FONDECYT de Iniciación / 2020 / FOLIO 11200138). This international and interdisciplinary research project is situated between psychology, philosophy, and psychiatry, within a phenomenological conceptual framework, in cooperation with Thiemo Breyer from the University of Cologne, Thomas Fuchs from Heidelberg University, and Mads Gram Henriksen from University of Copenhagen. The project focuses on the potential application of classical and contemporary philosophical phenomenological conceptualisations of empathy in theoretical and empirical research.
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Estudios de Filosofía (2024)
REVISTA MEDICA DE CHILEno. 7 (2023): 934-940
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