New YorkPhotographed in her own library
Forty years of listening, in five languages, across three countries.
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Psychology does not happen outside culture. Families, silences and the words available for feeling all differ from one language to the next.
Patients communicate the most difficult things through small distinctions: a choice of word, a shift in tone, a reference that only makes sense inside one culture. Being able to follow a person into their own language is not a convenience. It is the work.
Private clinical psychology practice in New York, alongside teaching, supervision and scholarship. Her multilingual work has included programmes at NYU Bellevue Hospital where language skills mattered clinically.
The geography of her career tells its own story. Italy gave her an undergraduate education. Brazil gave her graduate study and her first teaching post. The United States gave her a doctorate and four decades of clinical work.
Her academic accomplishments drew support from the Brazilian government twice: a federal CAPES scholarship for her master’s in 1970, and a second award several years later for doctoral study abroad.
Torino: Bachelor of Arts in psychology, minor in philosophy,
Istituto Internazionale Superiore Sacro Cuore.
Rio de Janeiro: Master of Arts in clinical psychology, Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
United States: Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology, Brigham
Young University, with clinical internship at New York University and Bellevue
Hospital.
Brazilian government support for her master’s studies.
Her teaching career begins at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
Brigham Young University.
Clinical psychologist, New York.
Clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, and the year her private practice opens.
Supervisor of psychotherapy. Seventeen years teaching clinicians, whose own patients she would never meet.
Psychotherapist to a university community: academic pressure, transitions, identity, the particular strain of demanding environments.
American Psychological Association; William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society.
Psychotherapists are formed by study, but they are made by supervision, by talking their clinical work through with someone who has done it longer.
Every clinician she supervised carried something of it into their own consulting room. Her influence runs through patients she has never met.
From 1974
Assistant professor at PUC-Rio, visiting professor at Brigham Young, then clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine.
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1993–2010
Seventeen years supervising psychotherapists at one of the founding institutions of interpersonal psychoanalysis.
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A publication carries an idea to students, clinicians and readers across countries and generations. Her scholarship reflects interests that cross psychology, psychoanalysis, literature, history and culture.
At the desk
Her bilingual analysis of Inês de Castro sits where her interests meet: psychoanalysis, literature, history, and two languages at once.
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On the therapeutic relationship itself: the dynamic between analyst and patient, which she has examined both clinically and academically.
Psychoanalysis brought to a figure of Iberian history and literature, read across two languages at once.
Titles listed are those named in her Dynamo Times profile of 28 July 2026. Publishers, dates and purchase links are not shown because none could be verified.
The fundamental human need to be heard and understood remains. The Dynamo Times · 28 July 2026
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A private clinical psychology practice in New York, open since 1985, in five languages.
Supervision and consultation, drawing on seventeen years at the William Alanson White Institute.
Teaching, lecturing and cross-cultural work in psychology and psychoanalysis.
Biographical detail on this page is drawn from the profile published by The Dynamo Times on 28 July 2026. No award, date, title, publication or affiliation appears here that is not stated in that source. The portrait is her own photograph. Direct contact details are not published here because none were given in the source material.
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