Rafael E. López-Corvo

Rafael E. López-Corvo
In his private practice in Toronto.
Born	Caicara de Maturín, Monagas, Venezuela
Known for	Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Psychiatry
Scientific career
Fields	Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Medicine, Psychiatry

Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo, M.D. is a Venezuelan-born medical doctor, psychiatrist and 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.

Bibliography

• Inteligencia, Afecto y Nivel Social, Monte Avila, Caracas.

("Intelligence, Affect and Social Level", Research on emotional development, of children, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, 1970

• El Niño y su Inteligencia, Monte Avila, Caracas.

("Intelligence in Children", Comparison between emotional (Melanie Klein), and cognitive (J. Piaget) development. Translated to Portuguese, Edi. Cultrix (1975),1970

• Símbolo y Mutación, Monte Avila, Caracas.

("Symbol and Mutation", A structuralist vision of psychoanalytical theory and practice),1979

• La Tercera Revolución Psiquiátrica, Editorial Ateneo, Caracas.

(A Psychoanalytical understanding of Therapeutic Communities),1979

• Y el Diablo También es una Mujer, Editorial Planeta, Caracas.

("And the Devil also is a Woman": a psychological essay about the aggressive aspects of femininity),1989

• God is a Woman, Jason Aronson, New York.

(A psychological essay about the libidinal aspects of femininity),1996 (Translated to Spanish: Dios es una Mujer, Seix Barral, Madrid. (Seven editions)

• Adictos y Adicciones, Monte Avila, Caracas.

("Addicts and Addictions", A psychanalytical understanding of addictions),1990

• A Kleinian understanding of Addictions, Monograph: Melanie Klein and Object Relations Journal, Toronto Institute for Studies in Education,

Vol. 11, N° 1, 1993

• La Maldición Eterna, Monte Avila, Caracas.

("The Eternal Damnation", a study of the history of drugs and family dynamics in addict patients),1993

• La Rehabilitación del Adicto, Nueva Visión, Buenos Aires.

(A comprehensive recount of several forms of rehabilitationfor addictive behavior), 1994

• Self-Envy, Therapy and the Divided Inner World, Jason Aronson,

All envies are originally intrapsychic. This book explores the destructive consequence of envy acted out against creative aspects of the self. Jason Aronson, New York, (Translated to Spanish, Edit. Planeta 1996),1994

• The Dictionary of the Work of W. R. Bion, Karnak Books, London.

(Translated to Spanish, Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid; Translated to Italian, Borla, Roma),2002

• Wild thoughts in search of a thinker, Karnak Books, London.

An exploration of those clinical links between Bion’s novel theories and those from “Classical Psychoanalysis”, 2006

• The Woman Within, A Psychoanalytic Understanding of femininity, Karnac Books, 2008
• The Traumatised and Non-Traumatised States of the Personality, an Understanding using Bion's Approach, Karnac Books, London 2014.
• Estados traumatizado y no traumatizado de la personalidad, una comprensión clínica siguiendo aspectos de Wilfred Bion, Ediciones Biebel, Buenos Aires, 2017.

External links

• Clinical understanding of trauma following Bion's approach
• Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Self-Envy: Therapy and the Divided Inner World. : By Rafael E. López-Corvo Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. 1995. Pp. 211.
• Joan Symington, The dictionary of the work of W. R. Bion by Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo London: Karnac. 2003. 327 pp.
• Jerry Piven, God is a Woman by Rafael B. Lopez-Corvo (Aronson, 1997)
• Self-Envy: Therapy and the Divided Internal World
• Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker : A Clinical Application of W .R . Bion's Theories