The range of our Foundation encompasses not only specific psychoanalytic treatment but also a research project. Our international purpose is to be in contact with other groups or organizations dealing with the same interests, especially with those engaged in research projects and studies like ours. In this way our Research Department is looking forward to answering all messages received. Travesía Foundation will share the hypotheses and frames of work in a private way with those interested in midlife transition/crisis psychoanalytic understanding.
We will also thank each bibliographic information we receive, because we have been organizing a data base specially pointing at midlife and adult psychoanalytic books and papers.
Travesía Foundation is not only constituted by our
Research Department. Our Assistance Department, our yearly Clinical-Theoretical Chair, our Vocational -Professional Department, and our Reflection Workshops also coordinate its efforts towards the main aims of the Foundation.
Our President, Lic. Guillermo Julio Montero, is an Argentine psychologist, and a member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He was the one who formed the first early group when he wrote "La travesía por la mitad de la vida" in 1989, that is "The Crossing through Midlife" if we put it into English. This starting point made the Foundation begin as a group of study, which was carried to a Foundation legal frame two years later. So far we have never received a different sponsoring but our personal monthly contributions.
Travesía means crossing, something like the general and wide sense of journey, and we took this word from the Spanish translation for
Dante Alighieri’s lyrics: "In the middle of the journey of our life...", where "journey" was translated into Spanish as "travesía".
