Rafael E. López-Corvo

Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo is a training and supervising psychoanalyst, of the Venezuelan and Canadian Psychoanalytic Societies. He is a former associate professor of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is also a former member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and Latin American editor for Jason Aronson Inc. He maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis in Toronto, Canada.

All along his extended carrier he has managed to conciliate his mainstream psychoanalytic afiliation with independent and original lines of thought and resarch, spawning through stucturalist approaches to child evolution, group dynamics and psychology, theological determinants of gender psychology, the mind of the adict and its treatment, Self-envy and other topics.

Though independent in thought, research and method, Rafael E. López-Corvo is an outstanding scholar and expert in the teachings of Wilfred Bion whom he considers has layed the foundations of future psychoanalysis.

Critical Reviews of his books

 * 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.

Publisher Reviews of his books

 * Self-Envy: Therapy and the Divided Internal World


 * Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker : A Clinical Application of W .R . Bion's Theories