Selma Ciornai

Graduation in Creative Arts and Sociology/Anthropology from Haifa University(1975) and in Art Education from Faculdades Integradas Benett de Ensino (1978). M. A. in Art Therapy from California State University, US (1980) and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Saybrook University , US (1996). Degree in Psychology validated in Brazil by USP( São Paulo University) in 1997. Registered Art Therapist (ATR) by AATA (American Art Therapy Association ). Honorary Member of UBAAT (Brazilian Union of Art Therapy Associations) and SPAT ( Portuguese Society of Art Therapy). Founder and coordinator of the Art Therapy Specialization programs at Sedes Sapientiae, São Paulo and INFAPA , Porto Alegre. Founder, ex-coordinator and teacher of Instituto Gestalt de São Paulo. Member of AAGT (Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy )and Member of the Cientific Comission of ABRAP- Brazilian Association of Psychotherapy (2012-2013). Has experience in Psychology, acting on the following subjects: psychotherapy, art therapy , gestalt therapy, women´s issues, group therapy , personal and cultural mythology and the application of field contemporary paradigms to psychotherapy. Author of From Counterculture to Menopause : Myths and Experience of the Passage? , author and organizer of the 3 books Paths in Art Therapy? and many articles published in national and international Gestalt and Art Therapy journals. Represented South America as invited panelist at the AAGT´s 1998´s Congress Voices From Three Continents? , and, in 2006 at the IX International Gestalt Congress in Mexico. Invited guest teacher at several institutes in Brazil as well as in the following latin countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Portugal, Spain, France) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)