Travesía Foundation is an Argentine non-profit organization which is made up of a group of psychoanalysts dealing with the psychoanalytic understanding of midlife transition/crisis. Our local purpose is to promote a prevention frame so as to avoid, when possible, undesirable outcomes.
Travesía Foundation delivers international psychoanalytical seminars and workshops from a midlife transition and crisis vertex of understanding.
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The Travesía Foundation [1989-2009] (Psychoanalysis for Midlife Transition and Crisis) is an Argentine non-profit organization devoted to the psychoanalytic research and understanding of midlife.
The Spanish word travesía means journey. In Dante Alighieri's first verse of The Divine Comedy he said: "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost". Although we consider all of life, from birth to death to be a journey of change and discovery that must be understood, the focus and scope of the research of the Travesía Foundation has been centered on the stage of life referred to by Dante, namely midlife.
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.
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.
The activities of the Travesía Foundation include:
- Research:
- A major focus of the research activities of the Foundation is a metapsychological understanding of the working-through processes that are specific to midlife, with particular reference to genetic processes, variations in presentation and outcome. Scientific papers on the subject are presented at national and international meetings.
- Annual Fall Meeting:
- At a yearly, all-day conference, scientific papers are presented both by members of the Foundation and prominent international guests.
- Vocational-Professional Activities:
- Professional orientation for midlife individuals trying to find their authenticity when they feel the need of re-centering their interests and lives.
- Community Orientation:
- Through presentations and publications the Foundation attempts to communicate ideas about midlife to the general public in the hopes of enhancing individual midlife experience through an understanding of the powerful, quasi-universal processes which determine health and pathology.
- Psychotherapy:
- The Foundation offers psychoanalytic treatment to the general public through the staff members while they are trained and supervised by several of the members of our board.
- Painting Contest and Exhibition:
- This annual event, open to any individual over the age of forty, provides an opportunity for amateur painters to display their works. Each year more than two hundred painters offer their creations to be exhibited and judged.
- www.fundaciontravesia.org.ar
- Is the official website of the Travesía Foundation. The website is continually updated to provide information on all current activities.
Our President, Dr Guillermo Julio Montero, is an Argentine psychoanalyst, 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.
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.
It is the hope of the Travesía Foundation that this information will encourage psychoanalysts to join us in the establishment of an: International Board for the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Midlife Transition and Crisis (PUM).
Montero, Guillermo Julio: Psychoanalysis of Maturescence (definition, metapsychology and clinical practice). The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Volume 96, Number 6, pages 1491-1513, December 2015.
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