Cancer and Psychoanalysis
A clinical analysis and metapsychological research on organic compliance and the fate of the repressed affect in the face of the body's suffering.
Analytic clinical practice in the face of cancer
The Soma and the Drive
Faced with the diagnosis of a severe organic condition, the question arises concerning the fate of the affect and the psychic positioning of the subject. This course introduces the conceptual foundations of Freudian psychosomatics and its clinical importance.
Clinical Research
A clinical analysis and metapsychological research on organic compliance and the fate of the repressed affect in the face of the body's suffering.
Open Access
This mini-course is offered free of charge with the purpose of disseminating the IDPF's psychosomatic clinical research and providing basic theoretical tools.
The Soma and the Drive: Analytic Clinical Practice in the Face of Cancer
Repression and the Body
A systematic analysis of somatic compliance as the final fate of the repressed affect within the psychic structure.
Death Drive
A study of drive disinvestment and the unconscious mechanisms that accompany the progression of severe organic conditions.
Clinical Accompaniment
Essential ethical and technical guidelines for the clinical listening to oncology patients in the consulting room.
Integrated Perspective
Conceptual interdisciplinary coordination to articulate medical treatment with the psychodynamic space.
Program Directors
Dr. Elías Alfonso Forero
Academic Director
Physician and psychoanalyst specialized in Freudian metapsychological integration and the clinical practice of complex organic conditions.
Dra. Claudia Cobos
Co-Director of Training
PhD in Clinical Psychology and researcher focused on the academic transmission of psychoanalysis and the development of supervision competencies.
Open Admission at No Cost
This mini-course is offered free of charge with the purpose of disseminating the IDPF's psychosomatic clinical research and providing basic theoretical tools to students and analysts.