Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo, M.D. is a medical doctor, psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. He is a former associate professor at Ottawa and McGill Universities and Program Director of Child and Adolescents Unite at the Douglas Hospital, McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of…
Psycho-Analysis for Latin-America. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst for the International Psychoanalytic Association as well as the Canadian, Venezuelan and American Psychoanalytic Societies.
Along his extended career he has managed to conciliate his mainstream psychoanalytic affiliation with independent and original lines of thoughts and research, spawning through structuralism approach to child evolution, group dynamics, femininity, addictions, self-envy, trauma and other topics, published over 100 articles, several book chapters and 22 books in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Persian.
Dr. Lopez-Corvo is also a scholar in the psychoanalytic approach of Wilfred Bion, whom he considers has laid the foundations of future psychoanalysis. He has been invited to teach on this subject in several places such as Rome, Naples, Seattle, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Vermont, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Ottawa, Montreal, Ribeirão Preto, Toronto, Beijing, Tokyo and Miami.
