- Physician
specialising in Psychiatry.
- Full
member, supervisor and scholar of the Portuguese Society of Group Analysis and
Group Analytic Psychotherapy (SPGPAG), being the current Chairperson.
- Full
Member of Group Analytic Society International (GASi).
- Member of
the Management Committee of GASi between 2006 and 2014. Invited to be part of
the International Advisory Panel of the journal Group Analysis in May 2018.
- SPGPAG delegate
in the Group Section of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy (EFPP).
- Member of
the Portuguese Society of Psychoanalysis (SPP).
- Founding
member of PsiRelacional - Associação
de Psicanálise Relacional.
- Founding
member of the International Society of Neuro Psychoanalysis.
- Hospital Career
Head of Unit, worked for 34 years in the Psychiatry Unit of Hospital de Santa
Maria, ten of which as Team Leader of the Day Hospital.
- Author and Editor of the book The Portuguese School of Group Analysis
- Several articles published in books and magazines, national and international
- Fluent in Portuguese, French and English
Especially dedicated to the treatment of severely ill patients undergoing acute
decompensation and training of Mental Health technicians. Introduced Multiple Family
Group Therapy in Portugal.
Continues to work in the National
Health Service, supervising technicians and teams.
Maintains private practice of Individual and Group Analytic Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis
and Group Analysis, as well as supervision of teams, psychologists and psychiatrists.
She has presented many papers and published on the topics in which she has
specialised:
- Updating
of various theoretical-practical concepts of Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis,
reformulating perspectives of psychopathological understanding;
- Psychodynamic
factors of psychopathology;
- Understanding,
Treatment and Follow-up of severe psychopathology;
- Training
in Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Group Analysis;
- Importance
of Group Analysis and Analytic Psychotherapy, both individual and group, in the
investigation and treatment of mental suffering.
Email: isauramansoneto@gmail.com