Claudio Martínez

Since my undergraduate studies I have been interested in academic life, particularly in teaching and research. I began my teaching career as a student assistant in the clinical area and my graduate thesis was an empirical research in the field of psychotherapy. However, my formal studies leading to my insertion in the academy were much later, since I initially privileged my professional training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and as a clinical psychologist, activities that I permanently carry out until today. I did my post-graduate studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, first a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and then a Doctorate in Psychology. In the field of research my focus has always been psychotherapy: My undergraduate thesis was on a training system in brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy; my master's thesis was on the adaptation of an interview to evaluate attachment representations in adults to be used in clinical and psychotherapy research; and finally my doctoral thesis was the application of a dialogic discourse analysis to psychotherapeutic interaction. I have progressively concentrated my interest in the field of process-outcome research in psychotherapy, with special emphasis on everything related to therapeutic interaction. This is a line of research that I inaugurated with my doctoral thesis and that has been developed for more than 10 years, with multiple collaborations, publications in books and journals, and training of new researchers in the area. In this line, I have been director of two regular Fondecyt projects and I have participated as associate and adjunct researcher in a Millennium Nucleus and a Millennium Institute (Midap) respectively. In addition, since a few years ago, and together with other collaborators, I have initiated a new line of research on the subjective construction of the experience of illness and mental health problems. In this line I was the director responsible for a Fonis project on the experiences of young LGBT survivors of a suicidal process, and then I was responsible for a project with international funding on the development of clinical and psychotherapeutic skills for working with patients of sexual and gender diversity. Out of that research came a clinical guide: "Culturally Competent Psychotherapy for Working with LGBT+ Patients: A Guide for Psychotherapists and Mental Health Professionals" (2018) that is in mental health care centers across the country. I have continued to deepen my research on mental health and psychotherapy with the LGBT+ population, which has resulted in the co-direction of a research on psychotherapy with LGBT+ people, the direction of a diploma course on the subject and the creation of a program - Project T - specialized in psychological care for trans people that runs at the center for research in clinical psychology and psychotherapy (CEPPS) that I direct at the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad Diego Portales. In addition, I am currently principal investigator of a state-funded research project entitled "The dreamed body: a study on the bodily experience of trans* and gender non-conforming people" that seeks to develop a comprehensive model on the subjective experience of trans people with their bodily trajectories, which serves to develop therapeutic interventions based on art and the body that facilitates the affirmative processes of diverse identity.