Resume

Guillermo Julio Montero PhD

PhD in Psychology (Universidad del Salvador) with a thesis on "Maturescence", Magister in Psychoanalysis (APA/CAECE) with a thesis on "Midlife Transition and Crisis", and PsyD in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires). He is a full member, training and supervising analyst of the International Psychoanalytical Association by virtue of belonging to the Argentine Psychoanalytical Association, and also a member of the Latin American Psychoanalytical Federation. He is the founder and the President of Fundación Travesía (Psychoanalysis for Midlife Transition and Crisis) [www.fundaciontravesia.org.ar] since 1989, where he also is the head of the Research Department. He is also a member and Latin American Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Committee on Aging of Patients and Analysts. He is the author of La travesía por la mitad de la vida: Exégesis psicoanalítica (Homo Sapiens, 2005) [The Journey Through Midlife: Psychoanalytic Exegesis]; co-author of the books Para comprender la mediana edad: Historias de vida (Entrevía Editorial, 2008) [Understanding Midlife: Histories of Life]; Mediana Edad: Estudios psicoanalíticos (Entrevía Editorial, 2009) [Midlife: Psychoanalytical Studies]; as well as the compilator and author of a chapter in Updating Midlife: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Karnac Books, 2013) [Spanish version: Actualizando la mediana edad: perspectivas psicoanalíticas, Karnac Books Spanish Editions, 2015]; and also an author of a chapter in O ciclo da vida humana: uma perspectiva psicodinâmica (McGraw Hill, 2012) [Human Life Cycle: A Psychodynamic Perspective]. He has also published several papers in Argentine, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, San Pablo and Korea’s psychoanalytic magazines, and in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, among others. He delivers papers at different international congresses, especially the International Psychoanalytical Association’s ones (Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, Praga, etc.). His paper Psychoanalysis of Maturescence: Definition, Matrapsychology and Clinical Practice was peer reviewed and published at The International Journal of Psychoanalaysis (2015, volume 96, number 6, pages: 1491-1513).

As a writer he won the Honorary Prize at the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Literary Contest with his novel: Zurcido invisible, which was published twice in Mexico (first as a result of the contest by FOEM: Fondo Editor del Estado de México; and then through Ediciones B) and it was translated as Invisible Mending and published in London (Karnac Books, 2014). As a playwright he wrote and staged in the off-circuit in Buenos Aires The Entire Life, an adaptation of his play Blenorraghia.