Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero, PsyD is a clinical, training, and supervising psychoanalyst, and full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She also teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and co-coordinates the study group: Metapsychology of Midlife. She is the current executive president of Fundación Travesía (Psychoanalysis for Midlife Transition and Crisis). She is the co-author of the books Para comprender la mediana edad: historias de vida and Mediana edad: estudios psicoanalíticos, as well as the author of numerous papers delivered at different national and international psychoanalytic congresses.
"Midlife" is a concept used everywhere and from many different vertexes, though mostly imprecisely, even within the psychoanalytic paradigm. This book tries to settle its proper meaning through the... (more)